Waste Management

This guide explains how residents should sort and dispose of household recyclables and waste.

These facilities incinerate collected combustible waste. The heat generated during incineration is also used to produce electricity.
Yokohama currently operates four incineration plants. To ensure reliable waste treatment in the future, the city is carrying out planned renovations and rebuilding work.

This page introduces waste incineration plant facilities in detail.

This video introduces Yokohama's waste management system, focusing on how waste is processed at its incineration plants.

This 360-degree video shows how combustible waste is processed. Subtitles are available in multiple languages.
You can freely look around the facility while listening to the explanation.

The plant is currently being redeveloped to ensure reliable waste treatment in the future.

These facilities sort collected cans, glass bottles, and PET bottles by type so that they can be recycled.
Yokohama operates four recyclable resources separation centers.

Incineration ash and other residues left after waste is burned are buried at these sites.
Yokohama currently uses one final disposal site in the city for municipal solid waste.
The city also maintains sites where landfilling has ended and uses parts of them as sports grounds.

This video introduces the history of waste management in Yokohama and the city's international cooperation activities in Africa.

Cebu City and Yokohama have signed the “Memorandum of Understanding on Technical Cooperation for Sustainable Urban Development between Cebu City, Republic of the Philippines, and Yokohama City, Japan.” Under this memorandum, Yokohama has supported Cebu City by donating 10 waste collection vehicles in 2014 and helping Yokohama-based companies expand their recycling businesses in Cebu.
In fiscal year 2017, with support from Japan's Ministry of the Environment, a Yokohama-based company established a plastic waste recycling facility in Cebu.
In fiscal year 2025, Yokohama held online meetings and training programs in Japan for Cebu City government officials to help promote waste sorting and recycling. Through these activities, Yokohama shared information about its waste management system and its methods for raising residents' awareness.

As part of the JICA Partnership Program, Yokohama supported Da Nang City in improving its waste management system. The project helped introduce waste sorting and recycling and develop a revised waste management plan intended to serve as a model across Vietnam.

Yokohama welcomes study visits from overseas to its waste treatment facilities, including incineration plants, recyclable resources separation centers, and final disposal sites.
The city also provides presentations on its waste management system and initiatives.
For more information, please contact the relevant facility or the office listed below.

Tel: 045-671-3593
Email: sj-wastemanagement@city.yokohama.lg.jp

Applications are accepted in Japanese only.
Visitors are responsible for arranging their own Japanese-language interpreter and transportation.