I came across this article on the BBC news website last week and ever since then I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
Kamikatsu is a village in Eastern Japan that is described as “zero waste”. Everything there is recycled. Individuals have to take full responsibility for all their waste and there are no waste collections from houses.
Admittedly the scheme is far from perfect, but it is interesting to read about some of the things that they are able to recycle that we can’t here in the UK. The incentives that are mentioned are also an interesting idea – I personally think that glass bottles should all have deposits on them, like they used to here in the UK and still do in some other countries, but that’s a whole separate post…
The question that I keep asking myself though is this: If a “backwater” (the BBC’s term not mine) like Kamikatsu can do this, why can’t we here in the UK do more?
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