Korean Recycling

Filed as: Us and Bucheon // Responses: 6

One of the great things about Korea is that it is very clean. The subways are immaculate. There is no garbage on them nor is there anyone eating while riding. The streets barely have any garbage; nothing noticable at least. And the recycling system – for all you environmentalists – is as rigorous as algebra. There are five different containers for us to drop our recycling in (all of which we have to sort out ourselves, three additional boxes on the side for papers and cardboard, a garbagebox a few steps away, and a compost a few steps away from that. The best part about it is the man at the end of the arrow in the picture above; heâ€™s watching you as you sort, and if you get anything wrong he flags you down and tells you where to put your recyclables, so you canâ€™t just dump your stuff in one container and run. Not that weâ€™d ever do that. Weâ€™re good, honest people, after all.

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Faxa

"not bad eh!"
Lila

recycling is REALLY important in Korea^^
http://profiles.google.com/the.morning.turtle Morning Turtle

Ahhh! I’ve been looking for this video! Thanks Simon and Martina! Good luck at your new place! (You guys staying in Bucheon?)

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Simon and Martina

Yeah! We’re staying in Bucheon, at a place two minutes away from our current one.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=48904804 Laura Vanderweide

Thanks so much for this! I’ve been looking for an explanation to recycling for a year now! We have a sign in English at my apartment telling us to recycle properly, but it doesn’t actually say anything about what goes where, or even what the bins say. Thanks again!
riniS2

I live in Incheon… My apartment does not have separate spaces for all of those things… I think I’m supposed to put them in bags? I haven’t really had much to throw away yet so I’ve kinda just been collecting trash in my apartment T.T