[saquin]

Shizuka Gu, 53, said that early on, a community leader sent her a letter reprimanding her for not writing her identification number on the bag with a "thick felt-tip pen." She was chided for using a pen that was "too thin."

Missorting was easy to spot, given the required use of clear garbage bags with identification numbers.

......umm, I don't think I'd want an identification number on my trash. Yikes!

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Well, Japan has no natural resources on their land. None. So they are forced to recycle virtually everything! Even their defecation for fertilizer (I'll pass on the rice, thank you)!

We had an engineer from Japan at our manufacturing plant one day. He looked at our operation, and remarked, "We waste so much energy! In Japan we shut down everything during breaks to save oil!"

We can learn something from these people!

[FierceDraka]

I prefer to get rid of my trash the old-fashioned way:
FIRE - THE BIBLICAL CLEANSER!

LOL ;-D

[Fiddlstix]

Coming soon to a Blue State near you..........

[struggle]

That's why I lived in Kyoto: The city of Carbon Dioxide reduction is also the city of no trash separation.

[sharktrager]

This is what it would be like to have a Homeowner's Association as government.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Trash cops, trash cops...watcha gonna do?

[Jaysun]

"They were renting the apartment, so I asked the owner, 'Well, would it be possible to have them move?' " Mr. Kawai said, recalling, with undisguised satisfaction, that the couple was evicted two months ago.

Tyrannical coot. If he weren't so old I'd suggest taken him to a picturesque meadow, kicking his ass, and covering him over with heaps of garbage.

[Professional Engineer]

He looked at the labels on cans to determine whether they were aluminum or steel. Flummoxed about one item, he stood paralyzed for a minute before mumbling to himself, "This must be inside."

Refrigerator magnets would solve this terrible dilemma!

[MCFujiTanker]

In Okinawa a couple of months ago a US Sailor was murdered, found stabbed to death by Marines. It took a couple of weeks to solve this "who dunnit". The suspects (other US Sailors) advised that since they watched "CSI Miami", they had disposed of all their bloody clothes, knives, etc. in trash bags and dumped them at a Japanese garbage station off base. Even after two weeks the evidence was all still there...the Japanese garbagemen never picked up the stuff, because it was unsorted in the worng color bags. Very ironic. Semper Fidelis.

[garyhope]

Why do I have the feeling that when they start telling me to sort every miniscule item of my trash that would be the moment I start throwing my trash in the middle of the street in the middle of the night.

If you can get evicted for not "properly sorting" your damned trash, whats next for the PC nanny police?