The capital city will sort its trash into burnable and non-burnable categories for optimum waste processing, an official said. Hoang Cao Thang, deputy director of the Hanoi construction department, ...

Kyoto has a reputation as a place where there’s a second meaning behind people’s choice of words. Often that meaning is meant to subtly nudge the recipient’s behavior in a certain direction, like ...

Congratulations! You’ve just signed the lease on your new apartment. When registering your new address at city hall, they should have given you a pamphlet detailing how to throw out your trash ...

KQED’s Los Angeles Bureau Chief and frequent Climate Watch contributor Rob Schmitz is spending six weeks in Japan, as part of the Abe Fellowship for Journalists. In the weeks to come he’ll file a ...

The economy is in a funk, and there is real fear big companies may start laying off people. Yet the talk of this metropolis of 12 million is garbage. Starting next month, the city has ordered everyone ...

Two weeks ago the city of Chiba announced that it would start charging noncommercial residents for garbage collection in February. Like many municipalities throughout Japan it will use a garbage bag ...

The proposal to build two, possibly three, garbage incinerators within Du Page`s borders to handle the mountains of trash generated each day was in trouble the day it was released by the committee ...

In Tokyo, we live in fear of getting caught putting out gomi, or garbage, at the wrong place, at the wrong time. And the scariest thing about gomi is the ladies--usually older and very proper--who ...

MAEBASHI -- The local government of this eastern Japan city on May 15 revealed that dump sites in the city have received more than 100 messages to support and thank garbage collectors amid the novel ...