Plastic resources

　How to Dispose of Plastic Resources

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

Plastic containers and packaging and products made of all plastic are subject to "plastic resources".
1 Plastic containers and packaging
　　Plastics that contain products (containers) or wrapped (packaging) that are no longer needed after removing (using) the contents of the product.
　　This is the case. In addition, plastic products that wrap products without a plastic mark are eligible.
　　→Q&A related to sorting
2 Plastic products
　　The longest side is made of only plastic with less than 50cm.

The sorted plastic resources are recycled as recycled as plastic products and as fuel for gas and other gases.
→Recycling System

・Materials that contain materials other than plastic (metals, rubber, etc.) → To burnable garbage
・Thick and hard, such as cutting boards → To burnable garbage
・50cm or more when spread, such as vinyl strings or sheets. → If it is folded or bundled to less than 50 cm, go to burnable garbage, and if it exceeds 50 cm, go to oversized garbage.
・Small home appliances (powered by electricity and batteries) → Please put it in a small household appliance collection box or in a separate bag on the day of "burnable garbage".
・PET bottles → To “cans, bottles, PET bottles” (however, caps and labels are to plastic resources)
・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.
・For vinyl bags, tubes, and catheters for home medical care, go to burnable garbage even if they are marked with plastic containers and packaging.

You can put out plastic containers and packaging and plastic products in one bag together. Put them together in a transparent or translucent bag where the contents can be clearly confirmed.
Do not leave the contents, and rinse the inside.
(Tubings and bags that are difficult to wash inside do not need to be washed if the contents are used up.)
Please put it together by stacking it.
Do not put anything other than plastic resources.
Don't tie a small bag in it.
All plastic resources are broken by machine before recycling, and the contents are checked to remove foreign substances. If you tie a lunch box etc. into a small bag and put it in a small bag, it cannot be broken by machine because it is small and the contents cannot be checked. Thank you for your cooperation.

Business waste cannot be discharged as household waste.
For food trays, please also use over-the-counter collection conducted at supermarkets.
List of stores that carry out store collection

●In order to realize a decarbonized society, we have formulated and are working on the “Yokohama Plan 5.3 Plan” (FY2023-2030), which focuses on efforts to minimize plastic waste.
●Efforts to prevent the generation of plastic products (reduce) and separation and discharge (recycle) as plastic resources will lead to a reduction in incinerated plastic waste.

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)

The new law is a law to reduce plastic waste. As one of them, a system for recycling plastic products was created.
For details, please refer to the following URL.
●Ministry of the Environment, Law Concerning the Promotion of Resource Recycling Related to Plastics (outside site)

●Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association (outside site)
(Banner Source: Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association)
You can see where the resources separately collected in Yokohama are recycled and finally reborn.
●Points for sorting and discharging plastic containers and packaging (outside site) (Video / YouTube re-cooperative image channel (outside site))
An overview of container and packaging recycling and points to note when discharging plastic containers and packaging at home are explained.
●Request to prevent contraindicated product contamination (outside site) (Video / YouTube Recooperative image channel (outside site))
In addition, the contents of the linked sites posted on this site belong to each linked site, and Yokohama City does not guarantee the contents. Please use the linked sites posted on this site according to the usage conditions etc. described on the linked sites.
In addition, Yokohama City is not responsible for any damage caused by the use of linked sites.