How This Town Produces No Trash
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In 2003, the local government in Kamikatsu, Japan decided to require that all residents comply with a new, rigorous recycling program - perhaps the most rigorous in the world.
Since then, the town composts, recycles, or reuses 80% of its garbage. It may not technically be 100% zero waste, as the remaining 20% goes into the landfill, but it's a remarkable achievement for an entire community, in such a short amount of time. The impacts have been positive - cutting costs for the community drastically, as well as improving the conditions of the lush and beautiful environment that surrounds the town in Southeast Japan.
Residents must wash and sort virtually anything that is non-compostable in their household before bringing it to the recycling sorting center. Shampoo bottles, caps, cans, razors, styrofoam meat trays, water bottles...the list goes on and on (literally) into 34 categories. At the sorting center, labels on each bin indicate the recycling process for that specific item - how it will be recycled, what it will become, and how much that process can cost (or even earn). It's an education process for the consumer.
All kitchen scraps must be composted at home, as the town has no garbage trucks or collectors.
And as for other items, reuse is heavily encouraged. According to Akira Sakano, Deputy Chief Officer at Zero Waste Academy in Kamikatsu, the town has a kuru-kuru shop where residents can bring in used items and take things home for free. There is also a kuru-kuru factory, where local women make bags and clothes out of discarded items.
At first, it was difficult to be come accustomed to the new rules. It can be a pain, and at first we were opposed to the idea, says resident, Hatsue Katayama. If you get used to it, it becomes normal.
Now, it's even being noticed within Kamikatsu's businesses. The first zero-waste brewery has opened in Kamikatsu, called Rise and Win Brewery. The brewery itself is constructed of reused materials and environmentally friendly finishes. By 2020, Kamikatsu hopes to be 100% zero waste, with no use of landfills, and to forge connections with other like-minded communities in the world, spreading the practice of zero-waste.
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This is how Japan Recycles Plastic Trays. I’m at the Ibaraki Kanto recycling factory of Japan’s largest plastic food container producer, FPCO. This Japanese factory recycles used plastic food trays to make brand new ones. In fact, they are the first company in the world who started tray-to-tray container production. All throughout Japan, used plastic trays are commonly collected at designated supermarket recycle bins, where they’re picked up by trucks and brought to recycling factories. About 5 tons of plastic trays are collected every day at this factory. Based on the most recent statistics from 2016 out of the top 20 plastic waste producing countries, Japan ranks 15th in the world, for annual plastic waste production per person at 38kg 83lbs, compared to the US at a steady #1 producing 105kg 231lbs of plastic waste per person, with the UK in 2nd at 99Kg. That said, Japan recycles about 20% of that plastic waste for reuse. First thing you may notice is that the trays arrive rather clean. And I can vouch, with no stench. In Japan, before placing the plastic trays into the recycle bins, they’re washed and dried at home by each individual. A very critical part of the process since this type of recycling business wouldn’t be possible without the cooperation from the community. Interestingly, many Japanese kids from a young age learn how to clean and separate plastics as part of their everyday school lunch helping to show them the importance and their responsibility for recycling.
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How San Francisco Is Becoming A Zero Waste City
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According to the EPA, the national recycling rate in the U.S. is only about 34%. That means most of our solid waste goes to landfills and incinerators - including recyclable items like paper, glass, metal and plastic. Massive amounts of food waste that can be composted is clogging landfills, creating dangerous greenhouse gases. Many cities are starting to tackle this problem by implementing policies to help curb the waste by recycling and composting more. It's known as the zero waste movement, and San Francisco is on the forefront. Other cities that have zero waste goals include Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Austin, and Oakland. But San Francisco has been the most aggressive. In 2009 the board of supervisors passed an ordinance requiring all residents and business to recycle and compost their waste, making it the first American city to make composting mandatory. Its goal is to achieve zero waste by 2020, and it has diverted 80% of its waste from landfills so far. Now the city is getting attention from all around the world. Government officials from China, Italy, France, Denmark, India and many other countries have visited San Francisco's state of the art recycling and composting facilities in hopes of learning how to replicate its success.
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Kamikatsu is the smallest town in Japan and also the boldest as the local government, active non-profits, local entrepreneurs and the local community have been reducing their waste since 2003. This is Part 1 of 2 videos discussing insights from a trip in July 2021.
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全世界垃圾分類最極致的小鎮，日本山野零垃圾小鎮，The story of the zero-waste town of Kamikatsu, Japan
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如果去日本旅行，垃圾也許是令你非常驚訝的一件事，大城市的街道上沒有公共垃圾箱，每個人都會把垃圾帶回家處理。但在日本將垃圾處理到零浪費這種極致程度的並不是這些大城市，而是一座青山綠水之間的原生小鎮。
日本四國島青翠稻田和森林之間的勝浦河邊，距離德島縣僅1小時車程的上胜鎮，擁有不到1700名居民。但在過去的幾年裡，它卻不斷成為世界各地的新聞頭條，因為這個小鎮有一個非常牛叉的計劃，到2020年實現全鎮垃圾零浪費，簡單理解就是所有垃圾不焚燒布填埋，100%實現回收再利用，不敢想像，這可能嗎？
上胜鎮是非常典型的日本農村，僅有的梯田用來種植水稻，珍貴的樹葉可以賣到全國各地的餐廳，老齡人口的比例占到一半以上，實際上幾十年前鎮上也曾花費重金建了一座垃圾焚燒廠。
很多垃圾含水量高，焚燒過程中需要用到補充燃料，政府環境監測到二噁英等很多有害物質，當地居民面臨著嚴重的健康和安全風險，從而垃圾焚燒和垃圾填埋的方式不得不在上胜鎮全面停止。
如果把垃圾運到附近的大城市去處理，同樣又是一項昂貴的社會支出，所以大家必須集思廣益找到最低成本的垃圾處理方式，其宗旨就是盡可能的環保同時又減少浪費。
1995年，當地政府開始向居民提供經濟援助，97％的家庭購買了家用生活垃圾處理器。但仍有很多自己家裡無法處理的垃圾要怎麼辦呢？
於是零浪費計劃從2003年起開始上胜鎮實施，政府官員為他們找到了垃圾回收商，他們會用再生材料製造新產品，這一前提就是居民們要把垃圾進行分類處理。
最初只有9個小類別，隨著更多垃圾回收商的回收合作，目前垃圾分類已經精細到45個小類。當然這一過程也並不是一帆風順，居民們在家最多只能分出10類垃圾，然後必須清洗乾淨晾乾後，在送到垃圾分類中心進行更細緻的分類，但這樣做很費時間，誰會願意在垃圾上花費這麼多的時間呢？
但由曾經的垃圾焚燒廠改建而成的垃圾分類中心，最終改變了大家的生活方式，其中針對垃圾處理最重要的一句話就是，如果它有用，它就有價值。如果它已經分類，它就是一種資源，同時優化的垃圾處理方式更有利於居民的身體健康。
對於日常淘汰下來的生活用品，小鎮上還專門成立了一座循環商店，人們可以免費換取或使用，仍然可以使用的服裝，餐具和雜物等，在馬來西亞也已經出現了複製上胜鎮的循環商店，大家都認為這不僅是一種二手物品循環再利用，更是真心實意的廣結善緣。
隨著2020年的即將到來，上胜鎮在垃圾零浪費上已經實現了80%以上，當然要達到100%還有一個非常重大的阻礙，那就是一些產品製造商繼續使用不可回收的材料製造產品。
為此上胜鎮開始向生產企業施加壓力，強調產品設計要符合循環經濟原則，一切原料都可以重複使用或回收利用，並建議生產企業給出產品使用壽命結束後如何處理產品的方案。
零廢棄物認證計劃由此應運而生，鎮上的商店正在停止進購無法再回收的產品。當然無論遇到什麼困難什麼障礙，上胜鎮都會要努力實現100％垃圾再回收的偉大目標。如此一個山野中的小鎮竟能成為全世界的焦點，你看明白了嗎？
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