{"id":631475,"date":"2026-09-21T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/631475\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:26:09","slug":"japan-is-famous-for-its-spotless-streets-so-why-are-public-rubbish-bins-so-hard-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/631475\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan is famous for its spotless streets. So why are public rubbish bins so hard to find?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">So why isn&#8217;t there more litter on the streets? Yoshida cautions against attributing Japan&#8217;s cleanliness to some uniquely Japanese sense of tidiness. Clean streets, she stresses, are also the result of years of deliberate policy. &#8220;For decades, municipalities have invested in anti-littering campaigns, public education, street cleaning and environmental design measures intended to discourage littering,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So why isn&#8217;t there more litter on the streets? Yoshida cautions against attributing Japan&#8217;s cleanliness to some uniquely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-631475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}