Garbage Bins, where are they!?

One of the weirdest things about Japan so far is the lack of garbage bins.

In Canada, wherever you go, you are surrounded by garbage and recycling bins. This ensures that people don't littler, it encourages proper disposal of waste etc. Plus, once you have a gum wrapper, a useless flyer or something of the sort, all you want to do is get rid of it and stop carrying it around.

In Japan, there are no garbage bins. Not on the street, not in the library, not on campus, not in train stations etc. I mean, you can find one if you really look, you might have to hold on to an old pop can for twenty minutes before you can find the right garbage bin for it. At the library today, I had to change floors to throw away a scrap piece of paper!

It goes against the rumors of efficiency... don't you think? at least the Japanese have a really advanced (and confusing) recycling procedure. You have to divide your garbage into approximately 5 different things where I live: burnables, recyclable paper and cardboard, garbage with food on it, garbage without food on it, bottles, plastic and glass... there are probably more but I am unaware of them.