We’ve heard many stories of individuals across the world who’ve adopted a zero-waste lifestyle, but it’s not often that we come across an entire community that is trying to become waste-free. The residents of Kamikatsu, Japan, take recycling so seriously that they actually hope to become the nation’s first zero-waste community by 2020.

采取“零废物”生活方式的个人屡见不鲜，力图实现“无废弃”目标的群体倒很少见。日本上勝町的居民在回收利用废物时相当严谨，事实上，他们希望到2020年时，能把家乡建设成日本首个“零废物”小镇。

Kamikatsu has no garbage trucks – so residents need to compost their kitchen scraps at home. They also have to wash and sort the rest of their trash into 34 different categories, and bring it to the recycling center themselves where workers make sure that the waste goes into the correct bins. It apparently took some time for the residents to get used to this rule, but they eventually managed to adapt to the drastic changes and are now seeing them as normal.

上勝町没有垃圾车——因而居民需要在家中将厨余垃圾制成堆肥。除此之外，他们必须先清洗废物，并对照34种分类标准一一归类，然后再将其送至回收中心，那里的工人会确保废物被正确放入相应的回收箱。显然，适应回收规则需要时间，但上勝町的居民最终成功适应了这些巨变，并渐渐变得习以为常。

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