Akita faces debris collection challenge month after massive flooding

Gathering catastrophe particles continues to be a problem for Akita a month after torrential rains flooded a complete of greater than 5,000 homes and different buildings within the metropolis.

The Akita Municipal Authorities is responding partly by suspending assortment of recyclable waste, nevertheless it stays to be seen when the issue shall be resolved.

Within the metropolis’s Narayama district, many homes have been inundated because the Taihei River overflowed. Though work to gather flood particles, corresponding to tatami mats and furnishings, is making steadily headway, catastrophe refuse continues to be piling up in vacant heaps.