3Rs, Waste and Recycling

Yokohama City aims to promote the 3Rs and reduce the total amount of waste and resources to promote decarbonization, reduce environmental impact, and aim to pass on a rich environment to its composition.

What is 3R?＞

• Reduce/Reduce
  Efforts to reduce the generation of garbage itself by utilizing my bags and my bottles
• Reuse/Reuse
  Initiatives to consider reuse (flea markets, recycle shops, etc.) before discarding
• Recycling/Recycle
  Efforts to recycle resources (recycle paper, PET bottles, etc.)

■Garbage from homes is sorted by 15 items in 10 minutes.

• How to separate and put out garbage and resources
• oversized garbage(There is also a tax exemption system.)
• Air conditioners, TVs (including LCDs and plasma), refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, clothes dryers
• Personal computer
• Thing which we cannot collect in city

■Illegal dumping

• Prevention of illegal dumping

■Abandoned bicycles and cars

• Abandoned bicycles and motorcycles
• Measures for Abandoned Vehicles

■Milk packs, used clothes, etc.

• collection box for recyclables

■We collect resources in the region

• local recyclables collection

■Why don't you reuse kitchen garbage without throwing it away and use it in vegetable gardens?

• kitchen garbage Bren Land Project