A rubbish can. I'm so happy.

If you are ever walking around Japan one thing you won't come across often are rubbish cans. If I buy a musubi, or doughnut from the store, I try to eat it as soon as I get my change from the cashier cause I wanna dump the rubbish on the way out the door. Japan doesn't have a lot of public rubbish cans around the city. Most rubbish cans are going to be in stores, in front of convenience stores, or like these, in the train station. I've asked people about this, and most people say that it's because terrorist like to put bombs and things in rubbish cans, so the government removed them from public.

If you do find a rubbish can you have to be able to figure out what kind of rubbish you want to throw away, and which rubbish can to throw it in. Japan recycles a lot of stuff, so whenever you find a rubbish can it will actually be three or four rubbish cans stuck together like this. Things that can be burned like paper and kleenex go in the left side. Cans and bottles go in the second from the left. PET bottles, which are clear plastic drink bottles go in the next one, and the furthest to the right you put your newspapers and magazines.

For a country that doesn't have a lot of public trash cans, there isn't a lot of litter. I guess everyone feels bad throwing it on the ground if there isn't any on the ground already. What you will see a lot of times is people throwing in the baskets of parked bicycles. haha. Uns. If you leave your bicycle in a high traffic area overnight expect it to be filled with beer cans and rubbish the next day. Keeps it off the ground I guess.