Michael Cash wrote:
> On 4 Nov 2004 09:30:10 -0800, worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) brought
> down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>
> >From Mainichi
> >http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20041104p2a00m0dm015000c.html
> >
> >"SHUNAN, Yamaguchi -- A bear found trapped in a garbage disposal
hole
> >will be left to die because it is already too weak to save."
> >
> >Now I can probably guess what a garbage hole is, but I don't know I
> >knew you could just throw your garbage into a hole in the ground.
Are
> >these things official, or was it just something the lady and/or her
> >village used? And is that legal, to just throw garbage down a hole
in
> >the woods?
>
> They're not necessarily in the woods.
>
> Some places (I used to work at one) use a backhoe to dig a pit for
> disposing of their own burnable trash. Every so often they burn the
> contents.
>
Does 'burnable trash' include everything that will physically burn,
regardless of health/environmental danger? I've seen some crazy stuff
burning by folks in Japan's countryside.

John W.