On December 22, the resource waste collection facility "Recycle More Hirosaki Josai Store" (TEL 0172-35-1424, Komagoshi-cho, Hirosaki City) opened in the Josai housing complex in Hirosaki.

The facility is open 24 hours a day for homes. You can bring in resource garbage and convert it to your own points. It is operated by Seinan Shoji (Kanda), which operates a recycling business throughout the Tohoku region. The facility will be the second one after "Homac Hirosaki Joto Store" (Waseda 4), which opened in June last year.

Resources that can be collected include aluminum cans, metal products, small household appliances and mobile phones, as well as newspapers and magazines. Convert it by weight and exchange it for a 500 yen QUO card for every 500 points. "The recycling rate for trash in Aomori prefecture is the lowest in Japan. If you feel that recycling is familiar to you," said a person in charge of the company.

It has been more than half a month since it opened, and some users have already switched to QUO cards. "A 100-gram aluminum can that can be converted to 2 points is equivalent to about 6 to 7 cans. If you think that you have the opportunity to drink more than 1 bottle per day, it may accumulate unexpectedly quickly," the person in charge said.

In the future, he will show his motivation, "I want to consider developing in other prefectures starting from Aomori."