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In Japan they don't have public trash cans so if you eat a snack you just shove the wrapper in your pocket until you get home or wherever. You end up with a pocket filled with trash, ha
In Japan I had no idea how to get rid of rubbish. The only way I knew how was to find the Mc Donald's and throw our trash away there.
I don't know why they don't have public bins.
They don't have them because they were removed after the Tokyo Metro nerve gas attack in 1995 as a precaution against future terrorist attacks. It's a pretty common response to terror attacks, France did it after the 1995 GIA bombings and the UK did it after the 1993 Bishopgate bombing by the Provisional IRA.
Anti-public cost cutting disguised as security theater
Dam that's a bit of an over reaction imo.
Wait, do you mean to tell me they don't have public trash bins in France or the UK either? Or did they bring them back after a while?
They brought them back after a while. Japan has started bringing trash cans back in cities slowly too.
They are afraid of bombs.
In my city center, after a terrorist attack decades ago with a bomb in one of them, all the trash bins were removed and never reinstated.
Everyone knows a bomb can only explode if it's within a trash can. I'm glad Japan no longer has to worry about this critical issue.
I all seriousness though, by all accounts I've heard Japan is very clean. The lack of trash cans is not an excuse people use and things work fine without them.
Its clean but there are a lot of stinky rubbish bags on the side of the road.
That makes the US's reaction to domestic terrorism almost reasonable.
Apparently we must have had a bomb thing with a bench at some point
Don't need a terrorist attack when all you need to do is be homeless