The Dark Truth Behind Japan’s Waste Problem

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Think of Japan, do you think of waste?

[00:00:01]Not at all. No? No. But they export [music] out substantial amount of waste.

[00:00:07]Mhm.

[00:00:08]Export out. They don't know what to do with it, or they don't they know it probably, but they don't have the manpower. Mhm. Or disaggregate it meticulously, but they do send [music] it out. A huge amount of waste out to different countries. Okay. So there's a term around this called waste [music] colonialism.

[00:00:28]Okay.

[00:00:28]>> Which is still real. So when you think and when you ask about India solving the problem of waste, or countries such as India [music] solving the problem of waste, Mhm.

[00:00:38]well, as a starters, we're not doing great as civilians. We're not [music] very responsible humans and citizens of the country.

[00:00:45]>> [music] >> Uh, but as a country, as an informal economy, Mhm. uh, we're doing a pretty decent job. Okay.

[00:00:53]Uh, because we're not only handling our own waste, we're also handling the waste which we import.