Nagata Ward Garbage
Collection Schedule
Official garbage collection days, designated bag requirements, and ward-specific facts for Nagata Ward (長田区), Kobe City. Population: 96,000 residents across 11.36 km².
Collection Schedule
Nagata Ward Ward Facts
Nagata Ward — Did You Know?
Nagata Ward is Japan's largest shoe-manufacturing district — the local industry produces roughly 35% of Japan's domestically manufactured shoes. The hundreds of small factories and workshops generate leather offcuts, rubber scraps, adhesive containers, and synthetic material waste that must be disposed of as industrial waste (産業廃棄物) entirely separately from household collection. Nagata Ward also has Kobe's highest proportion of Zainichi Korean residents — a community with deep roots in the pre-war leather-working trades — and the ward office provides waste guidance materials in Korean (한국어) in addition to Japanese and English.
Resident Note
If you work in a home-based shoe workshop (内職・在宅工房), industrial waste (scraps, solvents, adhesive tins) cannot be put in residential collection bags even in small quantities. Contact the ward environment section (環境係) for guidance on the nearest licensed small-volume industrial waste collection point.
Kobe City Designated Bags — Quick Reference
- Burnable waste: Kobe-designated burnable bag; official bag color is sky-blue semi-transparent.
- Non-burnable waste: Kobe-designated non-burnable bag; official bag color is transparent.
- Cans, bottles, PET bottles: Kobe-designated recyclables bag; official bag color is transparent.
- Plastic containers and packaging: Kobe-designated plastic-containers bag; official bag color is transparent.
Paper & cloth (古紙・古布) is a distinct monthly category unique to Kobe's system — newspapers, cardboard, and magazines must be tied in bundles with string and not placed in bags. Old clothing is bundled separately, same collection day.
Kobe City says prices are market prices set by retailers and the bag price does not include a disposal fee. Bags are sold at supermarkets, convenience stores, home centres, and drug stores across Kobe City. Spray cans and cassette gas cylinders use a separate see-through bag, not the non-burnable designated bag. Official source: Kobe City household designated bags.