2016年04月11日
The Clean Center
Hello, all!
Today I'm doing my spring cleaning, in preparation for my friends' visit next weekend! Part of this cleaning was to break down all my old cardboard boxes (I had over 10kg of cardboard boxes!), packing materials, and my older, broken exercise bicycle and throw them out. Since they're all oversize trash, I had to the take them to the Shikokuchūō Clean Center.
Yes, most Americans would be surprised by the Shikokuchūō Clean Center! It is a very, very nice building, with a distinctive "clock tower" (actually a smokestack for the incinerator), built between a lovely park and the open ocean. It's such a beautiful place to throw away your trash!
The only strange thing for me was that the Clean Center is built on reclaimed land, but it has an incredibly deep pit into which the burnable trash is thrown before it's incinerated. Don't they have problems with water seepage? I'm also a little surprised that no one is worried about possible environmental impact. Certainly when Hong Kong did the same thing people complained. However, I think that Westerners in general are a little more nervous about land reclamation. I'm sure that Shikokuchūō has plenty of protections in place.
At any rate, the process was very easy—I just threw the burnable trash directly into the incinerator (which is cavernous! It looks so much like a video game level!) and gave my recyclable trash to the attendants. It was all free! In America, I'd definitely need to pay for this, since most cities have privatized garbage collection services. I'm very happy with Japan right now.
Have you ever visited your "Clean Center"?
—Matthew
PS: Couri may also enjoy this song full of phrases Shakespeare coined!
Today I'm doing my spring cleaning, in preparation for my friends' visit next weekend! Part of this cleaning was to break down all my old cardboard boxes (I had over 10kg of cardboard boxes!), packing materials, and my older, broken exercise bicycle and throw them out. Since they're all oversize trash, I had to the take them to the Shikokuchūō Clean Center.
Yes, most Americans would be surprised by the Shikokuchūō Clean Center! It is a very, very nice building, with a distinctive "clock tower" (actually a smokestack for the incinerator), built between a lovely park and the open ocean. It's such a beautiful place to throw away your trash!
The only strange thing for me was that the Clean Center is built on reclaimed land, but it has an incredibly deep pit into which the burnable trash is thrown before it's incinerated. Don't they have problems with water seepage? I'm also a little surprised that no one is worried about possible environmental impact. Certainly when Hong Kong did the same thing people complained. However, I think that Westerners in general are a little more nervous about land reclamation. I'm sure that Shikokuchūō has plenty of protections in place.
At any rate, the process was very easy—I just threw the burnable trash directly into the incinerator (which is cavernous! It looks so much like a video game level!) and gave my recyclable trash to the attendants. It was all free! In America, I'd definitely need to pay for this, since most cities have privatized garbage collection services. I'm very happy with Japan right now.
Have you ever visited your "Clean Center"?
—Matthew
PS: Couri may also enjoy this song full of phrases Shakespeare coined!
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