N) What kind of recycling are you doing in Hachioji City which we live in?
Y) Let's try to examine it!
 

Engaging of Hachioji City
 

    It was earlier than the original schedule, and the situation that it became full happened, and a wide area trash disposal place in Hinode Town that trash such as Hachioji City is finally disposed of became the start that it grappled with recycling in earnest even in Hachioji City.　At that time, it was said that more than 30% of the trash which can be burned was a resources thing.　Activities were done in the place "when it is mixed, when trash is divided, resources".
 

    1, bottle
    Then, it began with the collection of the free bottle first. There are a Returnable bottle and an One-way bottle in the kind of the re-use of the bottle. Collection by the free bottle color started the business which specified the town assembly which did the collection of the free bottle from November in 1990 in the model group and which appeared, too. Moreover, the Returnable bottle which was added to the One-way bottle from December, 1991 and which could reproduce was collected, and a model business was started with the form that it was collected and picked out in other areas. Free bottle sense collection by the container dyed in present red and white from June, 1993 is carried out, and an applicable area is expanded from the viewpoint of stage, and it has been carried out in the whole area of the city from December, 1994. It is collected in accordance with the collection day of the trash of one time in a week which can't be burned.
 

    2, old paper
    The "old paper collection day" of one time in a week was set up separately, and a city was collecting it directly as for the trash collection of three times in a week that it could be burned as a model collection business from March, 1992. It starts as an old paper sense collection business in the whole area of the city in April, 1994. A city collects the things provided in the accumulation place of the trash which confirms a newspaper, corrugated cardboard, the collection day of the magazine kind by the collection calendar and which can be burned directly. It is taken out after it is connected with the string so that it can confirm it by one.
 

    3, milk pack
    1992 year September "paper pack recycling meeting" group collection group milk pack compose resources conveyance dealer administration three group business It becomes a trust business in 1996 years, and a "paper pack recycling meeting" cooperates to increase the control of the collection box and the participation of the citizen in the area, and a dealer is doing collection and conversion to the resources. At present, the establishment of the city installed a paper pack collection box in 39 places, and the 1996-year amount of collection was 19,420kg.
 

    4, pet bottle
    Collection was started in accordance with the collection day of the 3rd trash which can't be burned with the 1st in the model area (3700 households) in June, 1996. It goes in the way of distributing it in the accumulation place of the trash which can't burn a container box on the day before the collection day. A collection box is put on the supermarket and so on, and collection is being done in other areas. The study tour meeting of the cleaning establishment It is invited in the newspaper of the city, and the study tour meeting of the cleaning establishment is being held to have various people know a cleaning establishment.
 

    Video preparation for the citizen
    Even a cleaning part recycle promotion section, Public Relations Section, a community center are lent except that it televises by the thing which made the trash problem of Hachioji City a theme in each office and so on.
 

    Holding of the recycling festival
    It is an event to think about with for a citizen, a business person, administration to be as one and enjoying it about the loss in weight of the trash and recycling.
 

    Recycling open space "Attaka Hall"
    There are a heated swimming pool, bathing, a multipurpose hall, a recycling plaza in the establishment which the heat which went when trash was burned in Kitano cleaning factory in the neighbor and which was left was used for.
 

    It seems to do the above engaging.
 

    Hachioji City was the one that the correspondence of recycling was slow in the city. And, it faced, and we felt discontent. But, there are many schools, and there are many inhabitants of university student's living by oneself specially in our area as much as it is called with the university town. Therefore, information isn't sometimes introduced to such people well because relations are shallow with the self-governing body of the area and so on. The students said so are the conditions that it can't be protected very much in being sad before recycling even on the collection day of the trash. Recycling activities' not proceeding well may not be able to be helped for such people. Both a student's person and a general person want it to be the city which understood the sense of the resources properly fully from the basis from now of the thing which is only delayed. Engaging of the present city is as mentioned in the above. Though it has just and still begun, it is expecting that recycling proceeds more from now. The present condition is caught firmly, and one thinks what you must do from now, and it is difficult to carry it out.

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