🗑️ Recycling Guide / Trash Separation

Convenience Bins

Convenience Store Bins (コンビニのゴミ箱 - Konbini Gomi)

Convenience Bins

📖 Meaning & Etiquette

The trash cans located near the entrance of convenience stores (inside or outside). They are intended strictly for packaging or empty cups bought at that store. Stuffing general household trash here is highly restricted.

💡 Cultural Background

Offered as a courtesy convenience for customers. Due to severe abuse by people dumping massive bags of house food scraps to save money, stores are increasingly moving trash bins inside near cashiers to monitor use.

💬 Useful Conversation Phrases

Only discard trash immediately generated from products bought there (like empty plastic cups, onigiri wraps). Do not bring plastic shopping bags stuffed with hotel waste or outside trash to slide inside.

コンビニのゴミ箱に、ホテルの部屋で出た大量のゴミ袋を捨てるのはマナー違反です。 / 家庭ゴミの持ち込みが多いため、最近は店内にしかゴミ箱を置かないコンビニが増えています。
🔊 Dumping large trash bags generated from your hotel room into convenience store bins is bad manners. / Due to excessive illegal dumping of household waste, more convenience stores are placing bins inside only.

❓ Bilingual Recycling Quiz

What etiquette must you observe when using convenience store trash cans?

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