Going up the slope, down, and up again... A report on the "manual garbage collection" in Sasebo, Nagasaki, supported by people with an average age of 55, and the little-known "pulling out work"

In Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture, there is an area where houses are built on the slopes of mountains. The garbage generated from these houses on the slopes is collected by "pull-out collection". Recently, Shinichiro Ogawa, a cleaning worker of Sasebo City, who I became acquainted with, arranged for the collection...