Waste reduction and recycling information

• local recyclables collection

• collection box for recyclables

• recycle paper open yard

• Center recycling

• Konan Resource Recovery Center

• Store collection

• Home Appliance Recycling

• PC recycling

The Neighborhood Association and Neighborhood Associations, Children's Association, Geriatric Clubs, PTAs, etc., in cooperation with each household, collect paper, cloth, metal and bottles in certain places on a fixed date and hand them over to resource recovery companies.

※　local recyclables collection organizations registered in Yokohama receive "incentives" depending on the amount collected.
"Incentive money" is 3 yen per kilogram collected.

●When implementing a new local recyclables collection

[Registration] Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau Business Division Regional Collaboration Promotion Section Phone: 671-3817

[Introduction of collection companies, etc.] Resource Recycling Business Cooperative Telephone: 316-4050

collection box for recyclables, which can directly bring recyclables from homes such as newspapers and used clothes, has been installed at the following municipal facilities.

• Items collected: Newspapers, magazines and other papers, paper packs, cloths
• Opening time: During the opening hours of each facility
• Contact: Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau Tsurumi Office Phone: 045-502-5383

The following yards are temporarily opened to recycle recycle paper (newspapers, magazines, cardboard, paper packs) generated from homes.

• Contact: Yamamuro Yokohama, Inc. Phone: 045-784-5770
• Date and time of acceptance: Every Saturday from 10 to 16:00

We collect bases for paper, used clothes, plastic containers and packaging, etc.

• Collection location: Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau Tsurumi Office
• Date and time: Every day from Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 16:00
  ※Holidays are also held except during the year-end and New Year holidays.
• Items collected: Newspapers, cardboard, paper packs, magazines, used clothes and used cloth, plastic containers and packaging, cans, bottles, plastic bottles, small metals, spray cans
• Contact: Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau Tsurumi Office Phone: 045-502-5383

You can bring in recycled resources such as used clothes and used cloth directly.

• Location: 3-1-2, Hinominami, Kounan-ku
• Opening hours: 9-21:00
• Closed days: Facility inspection day (first Wednesday, second Wednesday in January), 12/29-1/3
• Items collected: Newspapers, magazines, miscellaneous paper, cardboard, used clothes, used cloth, cans and bottles
• Contact: Telephone: 045-832-2900

※Food trays should be given priority to store collections carried out at supermarkets.

※Not applicable
・Products themselves (video tapes, toys, washbasins, etc.) → "burnable garbage" (to City of Yokohama, Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau page)
・PET bottles → “cans, bottles, PET bottles” (to the City of Yokohama, Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau page) (however, caps and labels are to plastic containers and packaging).

Air conditioners, televisions, electric refrigerators, electric freezers, and electric washing machines cannot be collected by oversized garbage.
If you no longer need it, please pay the recycling fee and collection and transportation fee (depending on the store) to the retailer who purchases or newly purchases it.
If you are unable to request a retail store, please contact the Yokohama Appliance Recycling Promotion Council Reception Center below.

• Yokohama Appliance Recycling Promotion Council reception center contact informationClick here for the page of City of Yokohama, Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau

PCs that are no longer needed can no longer be collected as oversized garbage, except for some parts (if the manufacturer who purchased them went bankrupt or withdrawn).
Please contact each manufacturer for information on collection methods and processing costs.
※Accessories such as keyboards, mouses, cables, etc. sold with personal computers will also be collected.

For peripheral devices such as printers and scanners, Yokohama will collect them as household garbage if they are less than 50 cm in size and oversized garbage if they are larger than that.

• Contact:JEITA (Jita: Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association) (external site)　Telephone: 03-5282-7685
  ※The contact information of each manufacturer is posted here.
  ・Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau Business Division Regional Collaboration Promotion Section Telephone: 045-671-3817
  ・Oversized Garbage Reception Center telephone: 0570-200-530