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How to put out recycle paper (newspapers, magazines, miscellaneous paper, cardboard, paper packs)
Last Updated October 19, 2021
recycle paper should be put together in each item (newspapers, magazines, other paper, cardboard, paper packs) and tied with strings.
Anything from a business site cannot be sent to a collection site in household garbage.
Newspaper
Please fold it in four and tie it together with a string.
I'd like to have a folding handbill together.
Cardboard
Please fold it and tie it with a string.
Remove the adhesive tape and put it out in burnable garbage.
Also, put the cardboard coated with aluminum in the burnable garbage.
Paper pack
Open, wash the inside, dry, and tie it with a string.
If the inside is made with aluminum, please put it in burnable garbage.
Magazines and other papers
Magazines, books, manga books, textbooks and catalogs should be tied together with strings.
Empty boxes such as tissues and sweets, wrapping paper, paper bags, copy paper, pamphlets, etc. should be placed in paper bags (or transparent or translucent bags if not) and tied with a string to prevent the contents from coming out. Parts other than paper (Please remove as much as possible the CD of the magazine appendix, skin and cloth, vinyl cover, etc.
Dirty paper, silver paper, paper packs with aluminum inside, back carbon paper, printing paper (iron printed paper, etc.), thermal and firing paper (paper that rises when heated in Braille, etc.), cup noodle paper containers, yogurt ice cream paper packaging, detergent paper containers, and individual soap wrapping paper in burnable garbage.
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