Disposal system of garbage is a little different in each city and town. Description here is that of Fujimi-shi for the most part. For details, please refer to each city/town’s website or application ( Fujimi-shi, Fujimino-shi or Miyoshi-machi ).

Please pay attention to the followings:

• Correct sorting out, disposal of garbage and collecting days are set for individual area. Put out your garbage in a clear or translucent bag at the fixed pick up point by 8:30 in Fujimi-shi, 8:00 in Fujimino-shi and Miyoshi-machi on designated collection day.
• Household garbage is not collected and left at garbage collection site, if it is not sorting out correctly nor putting out at designated time. Please keep the rule.
• Taking away of recyclable garbage from garbage collection site is forbidden.

6-1 Sorting-out of garbage – combustible garbage

  Kitchen garbage, rubber, wood chips, branch cuts, paper diapers (waste should be flushed to the toilet). Kitchen garbage should be drained well.
Place in garbage bags.

6-2 Sorting-out of garbage – recyclable plastics

Recycle plastics for packaging of foods and daily necessities are collected for recycling.

• Fujimi-city: Put into the green net.
• Fujimino-shi, Miyoshi-machi: transparent or semi-transparent bags.

* The collection days are different for the following two types in Fujimino-shi and Miyoshi-machi.

• Plastic containers and packaging: Plastic products with the following mark.
• Plastics other than containers and packaging: Plastic products without mark.

6-3 Sorting-out of garbage – non-combustible garbage

Non-combustible things are ceramic items, glass, cups and mirrors, CD cassettes, aluminum foils, and small electric appliances.

• Fujimi-shi: Place in a green non-combustible special container.
• Fujimino-shi, Miyoshi-machi: Place cans other than drinks in transparent or semi-transparent bags. Pottery, glass, knives, etc. should be placed in transparent or semi-transparent bags and labeled “Dangerous”.

6-4 Sorting-out of garbage – hazardous garbage

Lighters, mercury thermometers, mercury clinical thermometers, mobile batteries, etc.

• Fujimi-shi: Please put them in the special container for hazardous waste. Fluorescent tubes and light bulbs should be placed in the case they came in at the time of purchase, or if not available, put them directly on the side of the bottle basket.
• Fujimino-shi, Miyoshi-machi: Please put dry cell batteries and mobile batteries in a used dry cell battery bag (yellow) or a transparent or semi-transparent bag, and clearly label “Dangerous” on the bag. Please put fluorescent tubes, light bulbs, and lighters in a transparent or semi-transparent bag,

6-5 Sorting-out of garbage – recyclable items

Newspapers, flyers, magazines/books, cardboard, paper cartons, miscellaneous paper, cloths (please tie up the above with string), cans, bottles, PET bottles, etc.

For plastic bottles and bottles, remove the lid. (Dispose of the metal lid as non-burnable garbage and the plastic lid as resource plastic.)

• Fujimi-shi: Put PET bottles in special net bags, and cans and bottles in special containers.
• Fujimino-shi, Miyoshi-machi: Put plastic bottles and cans of drinks in special net. Bottles should be separated into colored, transparent and white, and put into transparent or semi-transparent bags.

6-6 Sorting-out of garbage – large-sized garbage

These are household furniture, electric appliances (except four items designated by the home appliance recycling law and personal computer), futon, bicycles, video decks, gas ranges with two burners, and so on.

• Fujimi-shi: Please apply by phone, etc. (It usually takes about 1 to 2 weeks for collection.) There is a charge for these items.
• Fujimino-shi, Miyoshi-machi: Some of the following items are charged. Please purchase a payment ticket, affix it to oversize garbage, and put it out at the collection point. Other oversize garbage is free of charge. Please put them out at the collection place on the appropriate day.
  • Charged items: Spring mattresses, folding beds, massage chairs, chairs, sofas, organs, electronic pianos, health appliances with electric motors, car carrier boxes for cars, bicycles, and tatami mats

6-7 Items not to be collected by the city or town

Following garbage cannot be collected at the garbage collection point. Those items are such as tires, bathtubs, fire extinguishers, motorcycles and blocks. Also, followings cannot be collected in the two cities and the town due to the Home Appliance Recycling Law, such as refrigerators/freezers, air conditioners, air conditioner outdoor units, televisions (CRT, plasma, LCD, organic EL), washing machines/clothes dryers, and personal computers. Please refer to the following department in charge when a lot of garbage comes out by moving.

[Inquiry]

• Fujimi-shi Kankyou-ka : tel.049-252-7100 (direct line)
• Fujimino-shi Kankyou-ka Haikibutsu Taisaku-kakari :
  tel.049-262-9022
• Miyoshi-machi Kankyou-ka Kankyou Taisaku-tanto :
  tel.049-258-0019