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The streets of Shinjuku Ward\u2019s bustling nightlife districts face a mounting crisis of widespread littering (X)Fines<\/p>\nTOKYO (TR) \u2013 The neon-lit streets of Shinjuku Ward\u2019s bustling nightlife districts face a mounting crisis of widespread littering.<\/p>\n
As Fuji News Network (May 31) reports empty booze cans and cigarette butts pile up as brazen street drinkers ignore strict \u201cNo Littering\u201d warnings.<\/p>\n
The focus is the nightlife arounds around JR Shinjuku Station. Mountains of discarded alcohol cans are routinely left abandoned on outdoor air-conditioning units, while the pavement below is heavily carpeted with cigarette butts. Local business owners, tired of the grime, are at their wits\u2019 end.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s escalating and getting much worse recently,\u201d one local restaurant manager laments. \u201cSometimes you get groups of about 10 people gathering, drinking, and smoking together. It\u2019s reached a level where we are powerless. We need the ward to step in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The shameless nature of the offenses was captured on camera by a television news crew on the night of the 28th. Reporters filmed multiple individuals casually discarding their garbage in the street. One man was recorded downing a cup of sake before effortlessly tossing the empty container onto an air-conditioning unit.<\/p>\n
Another man was caught committing a \u201cdouble dump\u201d \u2014 tossing both an empty canned chuhai and a cigarette butt.<\/p>\n
When confronted by reporters, the man admitted he regularly litters in the area two to three times a week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just have a quick drink and go home,\u201d he says. When asked why he chose to dump his trash in that specific spot, he replied bluntly: \u201cBecause it\u2019s dark. It\u2019s easier to throw things away in the dark.\u201d He then casually acknowledged that he knew his actions were wrong.<\/p>\n
The streets of Shinjuku Ward\u2019s bustling nightlife districts face a mounting crisis of widespread littering (X)Fines<\/p>\n
While Shinjuku struggles to contain the mess, neighboring Shibuya Ward has recently taken a hardline stance against street trash. As of June 1, Shibuya Ward began slapping litterbugs with on-the-spot 2,000-yen fines, deploying a patrol force of up to 50 officers to enforce the crackdown and clean up the streets.<\/p>\n
Shinjuku Ward currently possesses ordinances that can carry fines of up to 20,000 yen for littering in designated areas, but the threat of financial penalty has so far failed to curb the relentless dumping.<\/p>\n
A representative from Shinjuku\u2019s Garbage Reduction and Recycling Division stated that the ward is now looking to amend and expand the scope of its anti-littering ordinances.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to consider effective measures while closely watching the results of the new ordinance starting in Shibuya,\u201d the official said, as locals continue to demand a practical solution to stop the endless cycle of trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (TR) \u2013 The neon-lit streets of Shinjuku Ward\u2019s bustling nightlife districts face a mounting crisis of widespread…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-473010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}