Take out Waste, Following the Rules

Season of Year-end General House Cleaning
To Refresh Your Mind and Your House

We will appreciate your following the waste sorting rules.

The waste in Soka City is collected in three categories - burnable waste, non-burnable waste and recyclable waste.
The total amount of waste from households during the last fiscal year amounted to about 59,000 tons, and the cost of disposal in a year about 1,690 million yen.
Converted to the cost per citizen, the weight of waste was about 648 g, and the cost of disposal is about 6,730 yen.

If waste is discarded, without following the rules, the work of disposing waste takes extra work and cost, because the waste may have to be resorted and the mixed-in dangerous articles may cause fire.
Still worse, the waste collection work may be affected.

During the year-end and New Year season, the amount of waste tend to increase after general cleaning of the house.
We ask to you to sort and bring out the waste, following the rules.

BURNABLE WASTE

Transparent or translucent bags

50 cm or less in length and width, 10 kg or less and burnable

Kitchen waste, paper waste, plastic articles, rubber articles, vinyl articles, leather articles, etc.

Reduce waste and separate recyclable paper

• Drain kitchen waste.
• Separate recyclable paper, such as wrapping paper and tissue boxes, as recyclable waste.

These are burnable waste

masks (to be sealed up in a bag), disposable heating pads, school bags, plastic containers and ski boots

NON-BURNABLE WASTE

Transparent bags

50 cm or less in length and width, 10 kg or less and non-burnable

Metals, glassware, cutlery, bottles and cans not for drinks, small household electric appliances, dangerous articles, etc.

Discard dangerous articles, following the rules

• Wrap cutlery in thick paper.
• Wrap burnable waste containing liquid silver in newspaper, and write what is in it.

These are non-burnable waste

apparatus with built-in batteries, small household electric appliances, kieselguhr mats as well as bottles and cans other than drinks (such as jam, mackerel cans and milk powder cans)

DANGEROUS ARTICLES
How to discard spray cans, lighters, batteries, etc.

• Empty spray cans and lighters.
• Be sure to take out the batteries from small household electric appliances. Otherwise, they may cause fire during the collection and disposal work.
• Put each category of articles in separate transparent bags and bring them to the collection spot.

To be received also at the collection spots.

Bring cells, batteries and small household electric appliances, such as cell phones (15 cm vertically and 30 cm horizontally or less) to the collection box at public facilities.

See the separate page about the resources collection boxes.

RECYCLABLE WASTE

• Bottles and cans for drinks
• Colorless and transparent plastic bottle (with the PET mark)
• Waste paper and magazines

Do NOT CRUSH cans.
CRUSH plastic bottles.

Lids and labels are burnable wastes.

• Waste paper (including milk packs) and magazines may be collected in your community.

BULKY WASTE

With fee
With reservation

Visiting collection (Up to 5 articles a day)
Bringing in (Up to 10 articles a day)

Over 50 cm in length and width, and over 10 kg

Furniture, bicycles, beddings, carpets, golf goods, etc.

Reservation: Sodai Gomi Uketsuke Center (Bulky Refuse Reception Center)
Tel.(048) 931-5374

We will appreciate your bringing them in.

A lot of reservations are received during year-end and New Year seasons, and you may have to wait longer than usual for a visiting collection.
If possible, please bring them to Kankyo Gyomu Center (Environmental Services Center) (Aoyagi 6-23-3).

* The bulky refuse is to be brought in by the person himself/herself.

If you are at a loss how to sort out waste, …
Use the WASTE SEPARATION APP of Soka City.

Functions

• Search how to sort waste and FAQ
• Waste collection calendar
• Function of reminding the waste collection days.
• Resource collection sites, and the maps and phone number of the authorized companies collecting bulky refuse

【For iOS】Soka City Garbage Sorting App - App Store
【For Android】Soka City Garbage Sorting App - Google Store

See the separate page about the waste collection schedule during the year-end and New Year holidays.

Inquiry

Haikibutsu Shigen-ka (Refuse and Recycle Section)
Tel.(048) 931-3972
FAX(048) 931-9993