Save the environment with Mottainai Furoshiki
08/09/2007 @ 4:00 am
Japan’s Ministry of the Environment has a website illustrating how traditional Japanese gift-wrapping techniques can be used to reduce the amount of garbage that ends up in Japanese landfills. If you’ve ever bought a gift in Japan you’ve surely witnessed the staff behind the counter folding their way to perfection.
Ms Yuriko Koike, Minister of the Environment, has created the “Mottainai Furoshiki” as a symbol of Japanese culture to reduce waste. Furoshiki is a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth which is used repeatedly in a stylish way. (The utilization of this “Mottainai Furoshiki” will contribute to reducing household waste from plastic bags.)
The best part is the instructions that show how to properly wrap your trash
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Yes–I started to get a sneaking suspicion that Koreans are more Japanese than anyone thinks when I noticed repeatedly in movies that they often wrap things in furoshiki, think this is not only better but environmentally friendly too, usually bow politely (although not always) especially to sempai and sensei, and behave the same as Japanese at funerals and graves (even though more likely as not born-again Christians otherwise). They also appear to be rather superstitious. And maybe they just got the crazy idea of Fan Death into their heads somehow–BUT, I think a lot of Japanese instinctively think there may be something to it? And although they might well have INVENTED yubitsume it is not exactly unknown among Japanese yakuza? Coincidence or what?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:39 am