We live in the land of recycling. You may remember
this post I did about when we first got here. It is a challenge trying to keep track of what goes in what colored bag and what days each of them have to be taken out.
Over the months, we have noticed, in the local garbage collection bins, rejected bags of garbage with the dreaded "dame sticker" on them. Dame means no or bad. We went almost nine months before getting our first dame sticker. It was on a green bag of garbage we put out. Why was it rejected, you ask? Green is for cans, metals, etc. BUT, evidently you can't put the lids to the cans in there because they have sharp edges. They go in blue, which is for dangerous things. So you have to put the cans in green and the lids in blue. Sigh.
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| So on a very hot summer day, here is Elder Hinton out sorting the cans from the lids. |
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| It looks like we're not the only ones. I saw this bag in a garbage collection and had to take a picture. I wonder what they did wrong? Put a rubber band in a plastic container? Criminal. |
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| Every neighborhood has one of these garbage collection bins. They are very strict about when you put your garbage out there, too. It is supposed to go out on the collection day between 8-9 am. Don't tell anyone, but sometimes Ken sneaks it out the night before- after dark, of course! |
I will not miss the recycling when we get home! It is a bit of a nightmare!
3 comments:
Sounds like Big Brother is in Japan too. I'm sure you won't miss the trash police.
9 months with a clean record is pretty darned good, I'd say! Japan must have far superior landfills to the US. Chalk it up to one more cultural experience!
Japan is much stricter than Germany and I thought Germany was way too picky! You will be SO green when you return home!
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