The 2024 Sixth Year Environmental Beautification Cleanup (Trash Pickup)" by the Wa Neighborhood Association Senior Citizens Club! Clean up the town with the spirit of harmony!

Monday, April 29, 2024

On Friday, April 26, from 8:00 a.m., the "2024 Sixth Year Environmental Beautification Cleanup (Trash Pickup)" was held by the Hokuryu Town Yawara Neighborhood Association Senior Citizens Club (Chairman: Nobuyuki Kanayama).

2024 Environmental Beautification Cleanup (garbage pickup)" by the Wa Neighborhood Association Senior Citizens Club

In the warm spring sun, more than 20 members participated in picking up trash along the roads and township streets in the Wa Neighborhood Association area.

The trash pickup will be along the Wa Neighborhood Association's town road and a 2-km one-way path, and will take about one hour round trip.

Wa Neighborhood Association Senior Citizens Club Environmental Beautification Cleanup (garbage pickup)
Wa Neighborhood Association Senior Citizens Club Environmental Beautification Cleanup (garbage pickup)

Each participant brought a garbage bag and a fire hook to collect garbage, cans, pieces of wood, etc. that had fallen along the banks and irrigation ditches. Mayor Yasuhiro Sasaki also participated as a member of the senior citizens' club.

Bring your own trash bags and fire hooks
Bring your own trash bags and fire hooks
Collect trash, cans, wood chips, etc.
Collect trash, cans, wood chips, etc.
Standby for trash hauling by light truck!
Standby for trash hauling by light truck!

Feeling the spring in Hokuryu Town

On the way, we were impressed by the plump buds of cherry blossoms, clusters of brush clusters, fukujuso (a kind of Japanese silver leaf) blooming on the banks, dandelions lining the road, and other buds of spring that were coming to life in a big way!

Cherry buds beginning to swell
Cherry buds beginning to swell
Cluster of clumps of "Tsuchibushi" ("earth brush")
Cluster of clumps of "Tsuchibushi" ("earth brush")
Fukujuso, a herald of spring
Fukujuso, a herald of spring
A robust life force that grows through the asphalt!
A robust life force that grows through the asphalt!
Dandelion spreading to the curb
Dandelion spreading to the curb

Garbage is carefully separated

The collected trash was carefully sorted into burnable trash, non-burnable trash, bottles, cans, PET bottles, etc. Numerous garbage bags were loaded into the back of a light truck.

People gathering to sort trash
People gathering to sort trash
The sorting process is detailed and careful!
The sorting process is detailed and careful!
Garbage bags piled up in the back of a light truck
Garbage bags piled up in the back of a light truck

Thank you for your hard work!

After the cleanup, everyone gathers. Thank you all for your hard work!
Drinks and pastries were distributed to all participants and the event was dismissed.

Thank you all for your hard work!
Thank you all for your hard work!
Drinks and pastries are distributed!
Drinks and pastries are distributed!
The three of them headed back home.
The three of them headed back home.

With boundless love, gratitude, and prayers for the active efforts of the town's senior citizens' clubs, who work together to beautify the town's environment with congeniality and pleasant conversation.

Clean and well maintained roads
Clean and well maintained roads
The townscape overlooking the majestic Mt.
The townscape overlooking the majestic Mt.

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