Cans, bottles, PET bottles

How to put out cans, bottles, and PET bottles

Collected once a week
(Please check with the seal at the collection site.)

Cans and glass bottles containing food and drinks (including medicine)
PET bottles with marks containing drinks (soft drinks, juices, mineral water, etc.), soy sauce, sake, mirin, etc.

Separated cans, bottles, and PET bottles are recycled as aluminum cans, bottles, and materials for making new PET bottles.

→Click here for the recycling mechanism (cans), (bottles), (plastic bottles)

●Put cans, bottles, and PET bottles together in a transparent or translucent bag where the contents can be clearly confirmed.
※Do not put "cans, bottles, plastic bottles" and "small metals" in the same bag.

Accidents have occurred in which workers at sorting facilities are injured due to contamination of injection needles and spray cans.
Medical equipment such as injection needles should be sent to medical institutions and pharmacies, and spray cans should be used up, and only spray cans should be put together in a transparent or opaque bag on the same day as burnable garbage. ※About accident that occurred in sorting facility (PDF: 397KB)
※Products that manufacturers and distributors must strive to collect and recycle are also collected at dealers and other locations.

Cans and bottles

Main objects	Cans and bottles containing food and drinks.
How to put out cans and bottles	Remove the cap. →Metal caps go to “small metals” and plastic caps go to “plastic containers and packaging” and “plastic resources”. Empty the inside and wash. Remove the inner lids such as tea tubes. (Please take out the lids and labels that are difficult to remove as they are.) Put it in a translucent bag together with a plastic bottle. ※Please put out cans and bottles without crushing them.
Not applicable	Excludes cans and bottles containing food and drinks. For tea bowls, teacups, heat-resistant glass (such as baby bottles), cosmetic bottles, fruit liquor bottles (such as pickled plum wine), fluorescent lamp and light bulbs, please put them in non-burnable garbage and spray cans in spray cans. Medical equipment such as injection needles and tubes should be sent to medical institutions and pharmacies, and when sent to burnable garbage, put them in a hard container with visible contents.

PET bottles

Main objects	PET bottles marked with an identification mark PET bottles with an identification mark containing drinks (soft drinks, juices, mineral water, etc.), sake, vinegar, seasoned vinegar, mirin, soy sauce, mirin-style seasonings, etc.
How to put out PET bottles	Empty the inside and wash.
	（1） PET bottles			（2） Remove the cap and label
	(3)Crush it to make it slim! Put it in a translucent bag together with cans and bottles.
	(4)Remove plastic caps and labels to “plastic containers and packaging” and “plastic resources”.
	※For PET bottles, please also use store collections conducted at supermarkets.
Not applicable	PET bottles that do not have an identification mark Oil, sauce, dressing, etc. Detergents, chemicals, etc. Used by replacing chemicals Plastic container containing eggs PET bottles that are not collected
	※Please put out these items as plastic containers and packaging and "plastic resources".

※Please take a look.
Yokohama City Resource Recycling Corporation
How to put out cans (outside site)
How to put out bottles (outside site)
How to put out PET bottles (outside site)
Recycling of cans
Bottle recycling
Recycling of PET bottles

The Containers and Packaging Recycling Law is a law to reduce garbage by effectively using container and packaging waste, which accounts for 60% (volume ratio) of garbage from homes, as a resource. Consumers play a role in separate discharge, municipalities separate collection, and businesses recycle.
For details, please refer to the following URL.
●Ministry of the Environment, 3R, Containers and Packaging Recycling Law (outside site)
●Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Containers and Packaging Recycling Law (outside site)

●Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association (outside site)
(Source: Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association)
You can see where the resources separately collected in Yokohama are recycled and finally reborn.
●Re-cooperative channel (outside site) (video/YouTube)
An overview of container and packaging recycling and the recycling of glass bottles and PET bottles are explained.

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