Just a quick one on Okinawan waste management.  The Japanese are admirably disciplined about their trash. The trash world here is divided into two kingdoms, you know a bit like Gaul but one less. One world is burnable,

Vercingetorix

the other is non-burnable.  Burnable goes into special  bags that you can buy from local convenience stores. Each town has its own bags so don’t go using Onna-son bags in Yomitan. These bags have red writing all over them. Non-burnable goes into clear plastic bags and there is  an exception for plastic bottles, which, O best beloved, will burn but must also be junked into clear plastic bags.

Bag it.

Outside my apartment block there are two little sheds. You got it. One is where you put the burnable, the other is for non-burnable. Apartheid trash.

Joe D'Allesandro

I notice that the top story on Britain’s Daily Telegraph website is:

‘Immoral’ bin fines by council ‘rubbish police’ to be outlawed

Don’t you love British journalism.