Cans, bottles, PET bottles

How to put out cans, bottles, and PET bottles

Collected once a week
(Please check with the sticker of the accumulation area.)

Cans and glass bottles containing food and drinks (including medications)
Plastic bottles with a mark that contains drinks (soft drinks, juices, mineral water, etc.), soy sauce, sake, mirin, etc.

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

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

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

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

Cans and bottles

Major objects	Cans and bottles containing food and drinks.
How to put out cans and bottles	Remove the cap. →Metal caps go to "small metal" and plastic caps go to "plastic containers and packaging". Empty the inside and wash. Cans with a large mouth crushes their mouths and nothing inside. Remove the inner pigs such as a tea bottle. (Please remove the inner lids and labels that are difficult to remove.) Put it in a translucent bag with a plastic bottle.
Items not covered by	Except for cans and bottles containing food and drinks are not eligible. Please put tea bowls, teacups, heat-resistant glass (such as baby bottles), cosmetic bottles, fruit wine bottles (such as pickling plum wine), fluorescent lamp, and light bulbs should be put out in "non-burnable garbage" and spray cans. Medical equipment such as injection needles and tubes should be sent to medical institutions or pharmacies, and when burnable garbage should be placed in a hard container with visible contents.

PET bottles

Major objects	PET bottles marked with identification mark PET bottles with an identification mark that contains drinks (soft drinks, juices, mineral water, etc.), sake, vinegar, seasoning 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)Make it slim and slim! Put it in a translucent bag together with cans and bottles.
	(4)Remove plastic caps and labels to "plastic containers and packaging".
	※Please also use plastic bottles at stores that are being carried out at supermarkets.
Items not covered by	PET bottles without identification mark Containing oil, sauce, dressing, etc. Containing detergent, chemicals, etc. Chemicals replaced Plastic container containing eggs PET bottles not collected
	※These items should be taken out as plastic containers and packaging.

※Please see here as well.
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 cans
Recycling bottles
Recycling of PET bottles

The Containers and Packaging Recycling Law is a law to reduce waste by effectively using container and packaging waste, which accounts for 60% (volume ratio) of household waste, as a resource. Consumers are responsible for separating and discharging, municipalities separate collection, and businesses are responsible for recycling.
For more information, 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)
(Burner Source: Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association)
You can see where the resources collected separately in Yokohama are recycled at which companies are recycled and finally reborn.
●Re-cooping channel (external site) (video/YouTube)
It provides an overview of container and packaging recycling and explains the recycling of glass bottles and PET bottles.

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