【Kuririn Center】・Hours: 9:00~17:30 (Mon~Fri)・Closed: Year-end, New Year’s and national holidays・Address: West 24 jo North 4 chome, Obihiro ・TEL 0155-37-3550*It costs 160 yen per 10kg (you don’t need official bags or disposal tickets)
Kitchen waste
Scrap wood, branches
○Please put your garbage out at your collection site by 9 am on the correct collection day.○Please put burnables and non-burnables in their official colored bags.
(These official bags can be purchased at convenience stores, supermarkets, etc.)○Please do not put garbage out on the wrong day.○Non-burnables and hazardous waste is picked up once every two weeks on Wednesdays.
Postcards
Business cards
Note paper
Wooden chopsticks
Paper diapers
Clothing
Tissue paper
◎Please remove soil and sand from grass◎Please use coagulant on cooking oil◎Please soak matches and fireworks in water
◎When you put out with a Burnable Waste Disposal Ticket, please cut wood into pieces measuring up to 5cm in thickness and 1m in length, tie them up with a piece of string no longer than 1m and fold and affix a ticket to the string.
Disposable with a Burnable Waste Disposal Ticket
Metals
Plastics
Small electric appliances
Leather products
Metal bottle-cap
Padded items
Glass waste
OtherAluminumStraws
Rope
◎Blades and small amounts of broken glass etc should be wrapped in paper and please specify as “Dangerous” on the outside of the blue bag. ◎Please use the official blue bags for cleaning bags and hangers as well.
◎Different types of recyclable trash should be put in separate bags.◎Please remove the contents, rinse the inside of bottles and drain before putting them out for collection. (if you put out unwashed waste, please put into an official blue bag for non-burnable waste and put out on the correct collection day.)◎When you put out spray cans, please use up the contents, degas and perforate the can at well-ventilated outdoors. You can put out spray cans as “Cans”.
Look for this mark when separating
Look for this mark when separating
Remove caps and labels from all bottles
→
PET bottles have this symbol
Cosmetic bottles and crystal glass bottle
should be put in the blue non-burnables
bag (see above)
Please do not flatten steel and aluminum cans. Put them all in the same bag.
Paper containers and packaging
Plastic containers and packaging
Plastic (PET) bottlesBottles Cans
Paper cartons
Fliers, magazines, publications, toilet roll cores, etc Newspaper
Cardboard boxes
Please drain, flatten and
bundle them up.
Please put toilet paper and other cores inside magazines and other
publications.
Please bundle them up.
Please remove staples etc, fold the
cardboard boxes and bind them with string. Dry cell batteries
Mercury thermometers Fluorescent tubes
Please cooperate in returning rechargeable
batteries to appropriate recovery
boxes at electrical appliance stores.
Digital clinical thermometers are
“non-burnable waste”.
Please put fluorescent tubes (and bulbs) back in their original boxes.*Please put out broken fluorescent tubes for
collection as non-burnable waste.
◎Items that you can’t put in Obihiro’s official 40ℓ bags are considered “bulk trash”. One item of bulk trash should have one side measuring 2m or less, or weigh under 100kg. Blocks, bricks and pieces of concrete are collected as “bulk trash” even if they are palm-size because of our disposal system.
①ApplyBulk trash Application CenterTEL 0155-27-5300
②Purchase Waste Disposal Ticket
③Collection
TVs
Refrigerators and freezers
Air-conditioners(including outdoor equipment) Washing machines Clothes dryer
◎You can also bring trash directly to the Kuririn Center (trash
collection facility).
For more information, please contact:Obihiro Public Cleaning SectionWest 24 jo North 4 chome, ObihiroTEL 0155-37-2311
★You must purchase these official red and blue bags to dispose
of these types of garbage
Please speak
Japanese if possible
Non-recyclables Dirty packagingFull or partially full
◎Products come in packaging, containers and bags.◎Once you’ve used the product, you won’t need the packaging.◎Look for these special symbols that tell you whether the packaging is
plastic or paper .
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Non-recyclables Dirty packagingFull or partially full
・Here in Obihiro, we sort our plastic and paper packaging to better recycle our precious limited resources.・However, we can’t recycle dirty packaging (see pictures below)・We hope that you will follow the rules of recyclingand help keep our recycling program running strong.
Obihiro Public Cleaning Section TEL 0155-37-2311 (please speak Japanese if possible)
You too can be a master sorter!
Rinse off the remaining contents of a container
before recycling it.
Cherish our limited resources.
We can’t recycle non-recyclables or dirty packaging.
Rinse dirty items before recycling
Are these plastic containers and packaging?
Straws
Tubes fortoothpaste etc
Plastic bucketsToothbrushes
Trays
ToysTupperware
Vinyl rope
Handouts
Are these paper containers and packages?
Post cards
Calendars
Cardboardcores
FliersBusiness cards
Memo pads
Tissue paper
Wooden chopsticks
Paper bags
Paper boxes
Non-burnable waste Burnable waste Magazines etc.
Make no mistakes!
PET bottlesGlass bottles
Cans
Remember that cardboard, paper cartons, and
newspapers are different from paper packaging
*Please refer to the pamphlet on waste separation and separate everything correctly.
Obihiro Public Cleaning Section TEL 0155-37-2311 (please speak Japanese if possible)
Now, you’re a
professional recyclables
separator!
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Paper cartons
Rinse these containers
out before putting them
out to be recycled
Cardboard Newspapers
(2 of 2)
No. These are actually
non-burnables.
Some of these items are “burnables”
These four items should be tied together and put out with
magazines
Highway 38Nihon Tensai-saito Inc.
(large white sugar beet factory)
Purchase and receive a home appliance recycling
ticket from the post office.
Pay pick-up, transport, and
recycling fees.Retailer
Hokkaido Nishino Unyu Inc
<Through a retail store>
<Direct disposal on your own>
Washing machinesFreezers & Refrigerators
Air-conditioners(including outdoor units)
To Memuro To Obihiro
Clothes DryersCRT TVs Liquid Crystal TVs
Plasma TVs
Illegal dumping is prohibited by law
●Violators will face up to five years imprisonment,
or a maximum 10 million yen fine, or both.
●Corporations that illegally dump will face a
maximum 100 million yen fine.
HokutoYanmaInc.
Industrial Park Road (North 1)
Satake Body Clinic
▼Home appliances that can be legally recycled
※TVs, refigerators, freezers, washing machines, air-conditioners, and clothes dryers.
▼Recycling fee
※The recycling fee can differ by size, type and maker of the appliance, so please contact your local electronics store for more details.
※Recycling fees are listed on the Home Appliance Recycling Ticket Center’s homepage URL http://www.rkc.aeha.or.jp
※The city will not take electronics even if you’ve disassembled them, so please dispose of them properly
※All of the above information may change at any time.
▽For more information contact: Obihiro Public Cleaning Section (TEL 0155-37-2311) (please speak Japanese if possible) April 2009
Designated Collection Locations
Collection locations differ by appliance maker. Please check
the maker of your appliance and then find your pick-up
location on the map. Collection times may also differ, so
please contact your collection location before visiting.
Sanyo, Sharp, Sony, Mitsubishi, HitachiB-Group Sapporo Tsu-un Inc. (Tokachi branch)Memuro North 1 sen 22-7, MemuroTEL 0155-61-3611Collection dates and times: 9am to 5pm except on Sundays, Holidays, Bon Holiday, New Year’s*lunch break is from 12 to 1pm
Panasonic, Toshiba, Victor, etc.A-Group Suzuki Shokai Inc. (East Hokkaido branch)Higashi Memuro Kisen 23-12, MemuroTEL 0155-61-3382Collection dates and times: 9am to 5pm except on Sundays, Holidays, Saturdays (Jan-Mar), Bon Holiday, New Year’s*lunch break is from 12 to 1pm
Consumer(you)
Designated collectionlocation
Recyclingfacility
N
A-GroupSuzuki Shokai Inc.
West 19
B-GroupSapporo Tsu-un Inc.