tm wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
>>tm wrote:
>>
>>>Declan Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>>>Just popped home to the apartment to pick up some dictionaries and 
>>>>stuff. Checked the mailbox on the way out to find that I received a new 
>>>>updated guide to Okazaki's ultra-intrusive & meiwaku recycling "system".
>>>
>>>Got no clue about the below, but i'm interested in Okazaki's 
>>>ultra-intrusive recycling "system". Please explain? 
>>
>>Do you currently live in Japan, or in any of the larger cities within 
>>say the last 3-5 years?
> 
> Tokyo.

I think Tokyo is a little stricter than it was when I last lived there, 
but from friends etc it sounds oretty much the same as here.

>>If so then Okazaki's system
>>http://www.city.okazaki.aichi.jp/kurasi/menyu3f.htm
>>is probably not much different to other Japanese cities of similar 
>>size/plus. Separation of all items (10 categories), clear see-through 
>>trash bags, inspectors, limited pickup schedule & recycling points etc.
> 
> Ah, when you said ultra-intrusive i thought you meant even more 
> intrusive than usual. I was picturing little old ladies in hardhats 
> gomi-bothering you in your own home.

Tokyo's gomi-nazis wear hard hats now? Perhaps they could raid the 
apartment of that idjot journalist up there who was complaining about 
having to keep the trash in the "second bathroom".

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