guy living in nagasaki
and somehow taro, they manage to keep cleaner streets than the US,

Sorry to hear you come from a slum, but Tokyo’s streets are not clean any standard.
Certainly my streets in Denver are not trashed out like my condo here in so-called ritzy Denenchofu. Hell, even the streets by my family home on North Side of Chicago are cleaner than this concrete slum.

because they fucking recycle you idiots

That’s the problem—Japan doesn’t recycle right now (and has always pretended to recycle much more than reality). Used newsprint is in such low demand that Japanese cities are now burning 90% of it. PET bottle plastic isn’t being used for production, even aluminum can prices are 70% less than 3 years ago. Used PET bottles are being sold to 3rd World countries for almost nothing for stockpiling.

The vilest form of Japanese “recycling” is adding liquid toxic waste to street paving asphalt—Double dumb is Japanese companies adding toxic waste to kerosene and then insane Japanese families burn it in UNVENTED heaters in their homes.

Bottom Line: Japan is as environmentally friendly as a Zen garden were every blade of grass is ripped out and the ground is pounded bare.

Somebody tell blinky, i’m sure he will love the idea and call it his own…
(Mom in law still got one of these blue trash can… hum actually no, I anexed it like a oil field in kuwait to contain the scooped cat litter.)

But what is the point of trying to keep a city from looking like a medieval shithole when you can shave 5 minutes a day on trash collectors salaries.

BTW, Judging from my observations of trash pick up in Paris -trash bin with wheels, special truck with integrated hydraulics pickup arms- and here -underpaid blokes flinging torn apart trash bags in the back of some truck.
I’d say that the time saved is… of negative value… between flinging dozens of bags or 1 bin… the maths are quite easy…