🗑️ Recycling Guide / Train Etiquette

Vending Bins Only

Vending Machine Bins (自販機横のゴミ箱 - Jihanki Gomi)

Vending Bins Only

📖 Meaning & Etiquette

The small waste bins with two round holes located directly next to beverage vending machines. They are strictly 'for empty cans and bottles purchased at that machine.' Leaving household trash or food waste here is a major breach of etiquette.

💡 Cultural Background

Provided by beverage distributors to retrieve empty drink containers. They are private recycling ports, not municipal trash bins. Stuffing food wraps or diapers blocks the holes and ruins sanitation.

💬 Useful Conversation Phrases

Only insert empty drink cans, PET bottles, or glass bottles. Do not stuff paper coffee cups, bento boxes, plastic bags, or general trash inside these holes.

自販機のゴミ箱はリサイクル専用なので、お弁当の空き箱などは絶対に捨ててはいけません。 / 穴が小さくて入らないからといって、ゴミ箱の上にゴミを置き去りにするのはポイ捨てと同じです。

🔊 Vending machine bins are strictly for recycling containers; never discard empty bento boxes or paper trash here. / Leaving your trash sitting on top of the bin because it doesn't fit is the same as littering.

❓ Bilingual Recycling Quiz

What is allowed to be discarded in the recycling bins located next to beverage vending machines?

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