Japanese are taught to wash out containers before recycling. It's even on TV. They also have the most over-packaged goods I have ever seen, individually wrapp

Japanese are taught to wash out containers before recycling. It's even on TV. They also have the most over-packaged goods I have ever seen, individually wrapped sweets, cakes etc wrapped in a plastic box and given to you in a plastic bag (3 layers!) not being unusual. (There is now finally a plastic bag charge introduced last year.)