In Japan, Kamikatsu is a special village. Its people are trying to make their town the country's first zero-waste town.

Kamikatsu has no garbage （垃圾） trucks, so people need to do with their kitchen waste at home. They also have to sort （分类） other rubbish into 34 different kinds, and bring it to the recycling centre. The workers make sure that the waste goes into the right bins. It took some time for the people to get used to this rule. They had difficulty sorting the rubbish at first but they finally made it.

The Japanese town has a perfect recycling process（过程）. There are different bins for different kinds of rubbish. The labels（标签） on each bin show the recycling process for each piece of rubbish, so the people know what happens to their rubbish.

In Kamikatsu, there is a kuru-kuru shop. There people can get new things for free by bringing their used things to the shop. In the kuru-kuru factory, workers make bags, clothes, and dolls out of used things. The town also tries to get businesses into re use — the town built a building with reused materials and opened a zero-waste beer factory in it.

A man living in Kamikatsu said, "At first we were opposed to the idea. We all thought it was useless. Now I don't think so . It's become natural to sort the rubbish in a right way."