【Kuririn Center】 ・Hours: 9:00～17:00 ・Closed: Sunday, Third Monday of Jul., Second Monday of Oct., and from the afternoon of Dec.31 to Jan.2 ・Address: West 24 jo North 4 chome, Obihiro ・TEL 0155-37-3550 *It costs 170 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

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 Glass waste

Other

Aluminum Straws

◎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

Milk-white Cosmetic bottles and crystal glass bottles

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) bottles Bottles 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. ①Apply

Bulk trash Application Center TEL 0155-27-5300 ■Hours:9:00-17:30（Mon~Fri） （Excl. Year-end and New Year holidays and national holidays)

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 Section West 24 jo North 4 chome, Obihiro TEL 0155-37-2311 E-mail clean@city.obihiro.hokkaido.jp

★You must purchase these official

red and blue bags to dispose

of these types of garbage

Please

speak

Japanese

if possible

Cushions

☆Diaper Disposal After disposing of diaper’s contents in the toilet, put diapers in a clear bag and put them out on the burnable waste collection days.

Non-recyclables Dirty packaging Full 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 .

Non-recyclables Dirty packaging Full 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 recycling

and 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

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Are these plastic containers and packaging?

Straws

Tubes for

toothpaste etc Plastic buckets

Toothbrushes

Trays

Toys Tupperware

Vinyl rope

Handouts

Are these paper containers and packages?

Post

cards Calendars

Cardboard

cores

Business

cards

Memo

pads

Tissue paper

Wooden

chopsticks

Paper bags

Paper boxes

Non-burnable waste Burnable waste Magazines etc.

Make no

mistakes!

PET bottles Glass 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!

Paper

cartons

Rinse these containers

out before putting them

out to be recycled

Cardboard Newspapers

No. These are

actually

non-burnables.

Some of these items

are “burnables”

These four items should be

tied together and put out with

magazines

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To Obihiro Highway 38

Nihon 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 machines

Freezers &

Refrigerators

Air-conditioners （including outdoor units）

To Memuro

Clothes Dryers CRT 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.

Hokuto

Yanma Inc.

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)

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Designated Collection Locations

Collection times may differ by

collection locations. So please

contact your collection location

before visiting.

Sapporo Tsu-un Inc. (Tokachi branch)

22-7, North 1 sen , Higashi Memuro , Memuro town

TEL 0155-61-3611

Collection dates and times: 9am to 5pm except on Sundays,

Holidays, Bon Holiday, New Year’s

*lunch break is from 12 to 1pm

Consumer

(you)

Designated

collection

location

Recycling

facility

N West 1

9

Sapporo Tsu-un

Suzuki Shokai

West 1

6

Suzuki Shokai Inc. (East Hokkaido branch)

8-1, North 1 sen , Higashi Memuro , Memuro town

TEL 0155-62-6211

Collection dates and times: 9am to 5pm except on Sundays,

Holidays, Bon Holiday, New Year’s

*lunch break is from 12 to 1pm