Getting of the point by the PET bottle. It starts in Tokyo Adachi Ward

The PET bottle is divided and collected with other garbage usually by the same route as other garbage collections or specific routes. However, the automatic collection machine that crushes the PET bottle in detail in super 16 places in the district in July is set up from becoming of the cost in it expensive in Tokyo Adachi Ward, and it asks the inhabitants of a ward for cooperation.

In addition, IC card corresponding to this collection machine is distributed to 10,000 making inhabitants of a wards from next month. The attempt to offer the mechanism that the point that can be used to shop when the PET bottle is put in the collection machine can be gotten, and to raise the collection rate is started. Four yen's worth of a point can concretely be acquired by ten PET bottles. It is assumed that the number of identification cards is increased further if the number of super where the collection machine is put in three years is increased up to 50 places in the district, and it is more effective.

One of the waste problems about which the various place municipality is racking one's brains for the collection of the PET bottle. It is bulky and the problem of running up the collection cost even if it is not possible to burn and it recycles has accumulated. If this technique goes well, a similar system will be adopted by other local governments.