As someone who lived in Japan for two years, I can recognize these to be true but counter by saying do we not utilize the same or similar devices? Can Americans not suffer a little bit of heat by rolling down the windows on a jaunt to the grocery store rather than putting the AC on full blast? And how about Christmas time, with the millions of gifts being wrapped in non-recyclable paper and taped together, only to be cruelly ripped apart and thrown away in the blink of an eye? Hand dryers, automated soap dispensers, automated water faucets, the last time I checked those were an excessive, unnecessary use of electricity.
I will say that the Japanese are much better about recycling than we (Americans) are. Each week I was responsible for dutifully separating out the recyclables and putting them into the correct color coded bins - and if I missed something, the local garbagemen would identify it immediately because the only type of bags we could buy were see-through. Bags that were not correctly sorted were left at the curb. Imagine if we had that sort of regulation here in the States.
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