Assignment Asia: Japan's zero waste town
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2021
- Have you tried going #zerowaste? It’s not easy. But Kamikatsu, a town in Japan, has managed to get its 1,500 residents to adopt a zero-waste lifestyle. Today, their town has no incinerators or garbage trucks going around to collect waste. How did they manage to do that? Can bigger cities like Tokyo do the same and #saynotoplastic? Let’s find out.
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HOPE ALL COUNTRIES ARE LIKE THIS
WORK TOGETHER TO REDUCE REUSE AND RECYCLE WASTE
USA could learn a lot from this video.
I have such a huge respect for these people taking initiative. They are admirable. It is a much more rewarding life than the average, wasteful, superficial one in Japan.
I think replicating this on the scale of communities of a similar size to Kamikatsu within large urban areas should be the way forward. When material is processed on a community scale you can reduce costs and then the resulting resources can be processed more centrally. Sure theres more labor for each of us, but sharing in the labor lessens it for all of us, even has the possibility to help build community cohesion and resiliency
Zero waste is good for the environment. If China developed an entire recycling setup for all items it could create a new industrial system with the ability to eliminate waste which could then be exported to other countries to help them.
I can’t blame an average Chinese living on the verge of poverty for their choices because they have no choice. Japan however packs each single brussel sprout in a supermarket separately just to sell their trash to China. They are a developed country that has a choice and considers fruit touching in a supermarket “rude”.
I would move to this community in a heartbeat. We could learn so much from them.
Especially how the Japanese easily turn history around!
All countries should take note and replicate this behavior!!!!
i hope one day i can visit this town. i am really interest with their way recycling.
It's great what Kamikatsu are doing, it makes you think first before buying something when you know how much recycling is involved when you throw it out. The title isn't quite accurate though. For me a zero waste town is one that doesn't create the waste in the first place, not just recycling. Buying everything in bulk where everyone comes with their own containers for example. I would be very interested in seeing a town like that one day 👍
Sometimes you have to choose between the price and the long term. Most of modest households are looking for low prices which often comes in plastic. So even though they want to contribute, there is a cost to the consumer, rather than industrials who use non recyclable materials. There should be global reflection on how we can produce and consume cost effectively and greener.
I wish there were more places like this
Bahahahaha, u wish? R u ready for their radioactive waste water though??
Lot of to learn from Japan
Great Steps by local authorities... bravo 👏 👏
Yes indeed!
Each one can do more.
I admire the goal and hope that the entire universe is listening.
I for one pick up egg shells from my local coffee shop to recycle at the Union square market in Manhattan.
I come by cab,and also buy produce..
I often wonder how to repair a long lasting umbrella.
I just wish that schools started by educating
kids.
Garbage trucks leave scattered pieces,
and many who own a dog,neglect to clean up.
Education is recommended and our policies need to be implemented.
Wow,you are setting the agenda to inspire a movement to change the way things are globally.
Thank you.
Margo,Bronx,New York
In Finland the landfill (if anything the local one to me) decided for around two years ago that from then on everybody throw eggshells in the category for burnable waste materials instead of bio waste, because they figured out they can get energy out of burning eggshells too so it won't go even then to waste!
Funny thing tho they let people know that in the newspaper on april fools day so everybody thought it was a joke! Tho they were totally serious, just unfortunately gave that information out on like the most wrong date of the year ever! 😂(But they should have known better anyway to not still give that out on 1rst april.)
They had to (to their dismay) have the news inform the day after that people forgot they had already stopped with newspaper's april fools silly pranks some year earlier so people should have known even then that it wasn't prank/joke/misinformation! I remember reading it to at that time and i didn't really believe about the burnable eggshells either!
I learned a lot of thing from Japanese how to manage trashes in home. I always wash the plastics with foods or other organic substances before storing in my bucket.
I stumbled across a number of their items in their recycling facility that I could use for an art project. 😁
I see here all of the trashes are clean.
It means peoples here washes their trashes before storing here.
need to do this in new Zealand's.
nice
Large scale changes by food producers are needed to impact consumer behaviour. We need to return to the shopping habits of our grandparents, who bought items by weight & who had their food stuffs wrapped in paper or put into their own containers. Here in Ireland, we introduced a plastic bag levy in 2002 so that today, the vast majority of people use reusable shopping bags. Like the rest of the EU, certain single use plastics are also banned & these restrictions will increase upto 2030. However our efforts (like the tiny community in the video) will count for nothing so long as vast polluting countries such as the US, China, India etc continue to contaminate the planet. The US is the worst example as they fully understand the problem but wilfully choose to ignore it, despite having the financial resources & communication systems to provide solutions. I despair......😪
What is the name of that container that Mr. Takayoshi has in his garden, that mixed soil and organic waste? I would love to find it. Thank you.
Plastic shopping bags are a nightmare.
They've been banned here in South Australia for many years now and it's not even slightly inconvenient.
We also have a 10c container deposit system to ensure plastic bottles all get recycled locally 👍
The Japanese Government should support her since she help clean up the environment
Modelo a se seguir!!! Mas infelizmente não está disponível legendas....
Zero Waste doesn't fully support recycling 🤔 it's more of a scam than a safe system. Plant based plastic for single use disposable is the best bet. Still I'm really happy to see an entire town work really hard to figure out zero waste.
that would require action at the highest levels. But at the local level, this is already in itself a great initiative.
Kathmandu really needs to learn from Zero Waste Town 🙂💜
love this, now if this idea could be driven through America's hard head there would be less waste. I am an American and I am only one person trying to reduce my foot print.
I'm Indian. I biodegrade all organic waste. This way of life has a beauty of its own.
Im doing too ☝🏻
🙋🏻♀️
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Refuse! Don't forget, 'cause it's most important. Refuse to buy plastics. Refuse to waste. Refuse to make China richer. Grow your own food and protect ourselves from consumerism.
I want to live in this town 😭😭😭😭
This model would have an economic impact as people practicing this model would naturally be hesitant to purchase anything they don't know to process it's waste or feel it is so much work to process waste and this would add to a very very long list of considerations businesses need to overcome which is going to slow down economy. We should find a more practical way of doing it.
Great decision taken by japanese government ❤️🙏
@@crzer07 yeah right India very "clean" 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
very ridiculous one banana wrap in garbage. ZERO ZERO ZERO WASTE LOVE OUR MOTHER GAIA. GRATITUDE for this video love you for that.
How many towns and villages are this much seriously concerned in Japan?
hi,
i want to buy plastic scrap
burn produces...?
Use glass instead of plastic.
Its great i think Most countries are lazy to impliment the Work and needed education of Communities, many around me are trying to reduce and recycle and are not well informed.
One Thing id Like to point is that the World partial uses China as there dumping ground (and also thé shift of our Emission to theirs)and that occurs also in africa, ITS Not an excuse, they should do better too. But we have to Look at ourselves First.
这世界上有多少人有这种时间来这么细分？？
@@crzer07 ，那筆尖萊克多巴蛙菠蘿呢？？排名第幾啊。。。。啊。。。啊
時間是由自己安排的，先從少買少用開始。
Who’s here because of Dr Vuong?
ZERO WASTE becoz all the waste go to the ocean? ? xD Get ready for mutant fish after they dump the radioactive water to the ocean...
"Spotlessness" liar. Japan is not even that clean.
Its a lot more clean that other countries. Walking down their street rubbish is very rare to find, they all recycle strictly and street cleaners go down nearly every street daily.
@@skittles696 That is a lie. I have been there and I have seen rubbish on the street. I have once seen these little white things lining on the walk path in Shinjuku.
Singapore is far more cleaner than Japan. And more importantly, they have garbage bin.
@@mira-uf1ie I didnt say they were the cleanest country, however I am often there for business and it far exceeds my countries cleanliness. Considering mine is known for being clean and green, they really outdo themselves for a city landscape.
@@skittles696 You really do know how to joke around. Regardless of what you and others are saying, it does not change the fact Japan is not as clean as they promoted themselves to be. I believe in what my eyes were seeing.
@@mira-uf1ie Lol congratulations? All I said was that its a lot cleaner than other countries and explained why. I never backed up the idea that its spotless. Read the room