April 18, 2026
Although renowned for its cleanliness, Japan has very few public trash cans. Many were permanently removed as a security measure after a subway terrorist attack in 1995. Locals are accustomed to the lack of trash bins and generally don’t do things that make garbage in public. Tourists are encouraged to buy furoshiki, reusable cloth squares for bundling waste, which can later be disposed of in a personal trash can.
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Talking Ocean Trash: Ghost Gear Keeps on Fishing
An earlier version of this article was published on the Britannica blog Advocacy for Animals. In July 2015 a piece of debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was discovered on Réunion, an island in the western Indian Ocean. Since then, more than 20 pieces of possible debris have been
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