Today Taube, Julian, Richard and I went on a tour of the Maishima Incineration plant with Yumi (our Japanese teacher) as our translator! It sounds like a strange thing to do but the design of this factory is really different and amazingly good for the environment considering it burns rubbish. It was designed by an Austrian designer, Hundertwasser and there is a similar plant in Austria. It looks like it should be Willy Wonka's chocolate factory! But inside it definitely is a rubbish processing plant without any smells at all! The most interesting thing is the plant is built on a man made island and the ash from the burning of the rubbish is layered with dirt to make a new island nearby! It was a very interesting tour, thanks to Yumi for translating! We then caught a boat to a different part of Osaka for dinner and drinks before heading home.
The view of the incineration plant from the bus
Close up of the incineration plant
Taube, Julian, Yumi and I outside the factory
About 16000 trees are planted within the factory as the designer was concerned about nature and wanted to keep any of the existing trees and also add more
The big golden balls that are part of the design are coated in gold!
This claw would pick up 7 tonnes of rubbish each time to put in the incinerator
44m deep rubbish bin!
Where we caught the boat to Tempozan
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