Alpinist Noguchi helps remove 135kg of garbage from Mt. Fuji, notes urine bottle waste – The Mainichi

NARUSAWA, Yamanashi — Alpinist Ken Noguchi and different volunteers eliminated some 135 kilograms of rubbish from the foot of Mount Fuji in a latest cleanup venture, with Noguchi noting the rising variety of bottles of urine which are being discarded.

The “Mount Fuji Clear Tour,” sponsored by The Mainichi Newspapers Co. and the nonprofit Fujisan Membership, was held on Nov. 19 within the Aokigahara space of the Yamanashi Prefecture village of Narusawa, generally referred to on the “Sea of Bushes.” Round 35 individuals took half, selecting up trash together with drink bottles and bento containers. The tour was a part of the Mount Fuji restoration marketing campaign launched by The Mainichi Newspapers in 2000.

“Over the previous few years, there was a surge within the variety of plastic bottles containing urine which are believed to have been discarded from the street,” Noguchi stated. “I need all of us to assume collectively about countermeasures.”

Tomoyuki Todate, a 39-year-old workplace employee from Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, who took half within the cleanup, commented, “I used to be stunned by the sheer quantity of rubbish. It made me take into consideration what might be executed in order that the trash is now not tossed away like this.”

(Japanese unique by Kimi Takeuchi, Sustainability Committee Secretariat)