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It seems a lot focused around cars which matches my experience as well. A few toughts on things that could help: - Cars need a small place for trash. Gum wrapp
by bradly 2y ago
It seems a lot focused around cars which matches my experience as well. A few toughts on things that could help:
- Cars need a small place for trash. Gum wrappers, receipts, things of that size. I would love to see this be a first class citizen in a car's interior similar to its cup holders.
- I'd be interested to see if a drive-through public trash can would be effective is reducing the litter from cars described in the article. If people didn't have to get out of their cars similar to US mail drop boxes it could be enough to keep people from leaving their fast food trash on the street.
- In Japan it is culturally unusually for you to eat while walking. Street food is expected to be eaten at the stall it is purchased at. Trash is then collected on the spot and as a result Japan has very few public trash cans, but virtually no litter with merchants responsible for the trash they create. Making food chains responsible for the refuse they create may help see change as well.
- slillibri 2y agoJapan got rid of public trash cans after the 95 sarin gas attack. There are still some, for example at the Sanja Matsuri there were several trash cans around due to the large number of stalls at Senso-ji.