In
December, we received this two sided color page in the mail about changes our
town is making to the trash pick up.
I didn’t know what it was all about, but
luckily my English class students translated it for me! Some things, like food
trash, leather, and clothing that used to be non-burnable trash are now
burnable trash. Non-burnable used to be
picked up twice a week; now it’s once a month.
Starting
in April, we have to buy bags to put out the trash. I guess that means those who generate more
trash, have to pay more.
I
always try to follow the rules, but sometimes it is difficult to figure out
what the rules are! (Thank you Coopclass members.)
3 comments:
Oh my goodness. First - thank heavens your class could translate - second, looks complicated!
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The Japanese are sticklers for rules. In this case, environmental issue, I, being Swedish and bottled fed with environmental thinking, fully agree that there must be rules and they should be followed.
More and more goods are sold in packaging and as there are so many kinds of material, sorting before disposing is necessary.
I think it is great that the City provides the residents with this kind of detailed information. Reading all the text in Japanese is a difficult task for us foreigners, but I think the illustrations give us enough info to figure out, or at least ask the help of Japanese friends (or students) to translate. Imagine this poster with text ONLY, it could just as well be about car insurance or in protest of the new airport or an invitation to a religious meeting... With the picture we get a hint at what it is all about. This is Manga culture!
How wonderful of your students! Our garbage is picked up every Monday with either the recycling or yard debris (as these two are picked up every other week on alternating weeks.)
With non-burnable trash being picked up twice a month in the past and now only being once a month, I could not help but wonder if that caused residence much difficulty (even with more items being burnable now.)
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