Garbage -4-

We can't deal with garbage by our selves; it means we have to understand that we need extra attention to deal with garbage. What do you think about it? It's not easy to burn garbage and to bury garbage in this narrow Japan. We need to change our mind from easy thinking that garbage should be thrown away to serious thinking that we have garbage disposed by someone. Though it might be out of focus about this issue, in my house, probably my husband and my daughter think that they have their garbage disposed by me. So anyway our garbage manages to be separated.

Moreover I hope we think about garbage positively. Though I also tell old times, at that time "Don't waste everything" was common. Some people would hesitate to throw things away. But now we are surrounded with full of things and it is easy to think "buying something new is easier than keeping old things". So we tend to be indifferent to throwing things away. It's not good. We should have interests to throw things away. Actually these days, the word of "MOTTAINAI" that means "what a waste!" is being reconsidered. And using a picture book, the word of MOTTAINAI is reconsidered at moral class in every elementary school. It's a good and really effective thing to change our minds, isn't it? And though it's a tiny thing, I also read an English version of this book at nursery schools. Reading the book, not only audience but also myself can rethink about garbage.

It's a usual thing to obey the rule, so we should dispose garbage according to the rule. But having "Mottainai" sense we try to deal with garbage positively not from command. This attitude is more important, don't you think so? And this attitude might lead to save the earth. Anyway not try to think "throw away garbage" instantly, wait a minute to put garbage into a trashcan.