When off-base residents don’t sort garbage properly, the mistakes can damage Japanese sorting machines, and most times Japanese trash haulers won’t pick up items not bagged or sorted properly. For ...

Garbage sorting is a well established ritual in Japan that few question, despite the time and effort involved. A typical resident of a major city has Mondays and Thursdays as options to take ...

There is one of those fabulous stories that shows just how wacky the Japanese are in the NY Times today. Since Japan has very little land available for garbage dumping, many towns and villages sort ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan, May 12 (UPI) -- Land-scarce Japan incinerates 80 percent of its garbage while the United States dumps 80 percent of its trash into landfills. While many Americans struggle to sort ...