Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:South Korea solved the food waste problem.

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share

South Korea solved the food waste problem.

Zero percent of their food waste ends up in landfills.

In 2005, the country actually banned dumping food waste in landfills.

And as many know, landfills are the worst place for food waste to end up.It not only releases methane when it ends up in landfills.But it also becomes a lost resource for another parts of the economy.

South Korea residents separate food scraps from their recycling and other waste.The food waste then gets turned into animal feed, composted or used to heat homes.And residents are billed according to weight of food waste discarded, around $3-6/month.

The program, albeit successful, still costs the government $600 million per year.

A small price to pay to redirect wasted resources elsewhere, be responsible for the true costs of food, and being accountable for the environmental impacts of food waste.

We don't need to produce more food.We need to fix our resource streams.

Some of the solutions we are looking for exist in the food waste streams.South Korea proves our point.

source:Mitch Hinrichs

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