{"id":269321,"date":"2025-11-03T18:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269321\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:35:13","slug":"using-recycling-boxes-responsibly-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269321\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Recycling Boxes Responsibly in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJapan Data<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSociety<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLifestyle<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEnvironment<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tNov 4, 2025<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tA survey in Japan found that many people were unaware that recycling boxes next to vending machines are not meant for nonrecyclable trash, and that there should be no leftover liquid in discarded containers.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

In a nationwide survey conducted in early September 2025 by the Japan Soft Drink Association, respondents aged 15 to 69 were asked about their opinions on recycling of plastic bottles and other soft drink containers, receiving 1,037 valid responses.<\/p>\n

The percentage of people who were aware that the boxes next to vending machines were \u201crecycling boxes for collection of cans and glass and plastic bottles\u201d accounted for 71.8% in total. On the other hand, nearly 30% of people could not distinguish the boxes from trash cans and 21.1% had \u201cput items other than recyclables in them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Recycling<\/a>
Recycling boxes that are placed alongside vending machines. (Courtesy Japan Soft Drink Association)<\/p>\n

The most common wrong item placed in these boxes was \u201cplastic cups\u201d with 55.7%, followed by \u201cplastic shopping bags\u201d and \u201csnack wrappers.\u201d With 53.4% saying \u201cthere was nowhere else to put it\u201d and 14.2% responding that \u201cI didn\u2019t want to take it home,\u201d it appeared in many cases it was done without thinking. A further 32.0% stated that they didn\u2019t know it was wrong.<\/p>\n

\"Wrong<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Reasons<\/a><\/p>\n

The survey also revealed that 62.6% were aware that even recyclable plastic bottles and cans should not have any leftover liquid in them, and 55.3% knew that in this state they could not be recycled, leading to problems at recycling plants.<\/p>\n

\"Containers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Containers<\/a><\/p>\n

Approximately 40% of people seemed to be under the impression that \u201ceven if there is drink left over, it can probably be recycled,\u201d but that is not the case. Only empty glass bottles, cans, and plastic bottles should be placed in these recycling boxes.<\/p>\n

Data Sources<\/p>\n

(Translated from Japanese. Banner photo \u00a9\u00a0Pixta.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t environment<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t recycling<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan Data Society Lifestyle Environment Nov 4, 2025 A survey in Japan found that many people were unaware…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,6562,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-269321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-recycling","10":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}