OC: In a bid to control the nation’s growing problem with food wastage, the South Korean government has started a unique initiative – ‘Pay as You Trash’.
Residents are required to separate their food waste from the rest of their trash and dump it separately in a centralised bin. And in order to access the bin, they actually need to pay by the kilo!
As of now, the South Korean government has three methods in place to charge citizens for the food thrown away. One is through an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) card – read more
Interesting that South Korea has a food waste problem while North Korea is starving. I could hope that these little Snowflakes in our country who are so fond of socialism/Marxism would take note, but I’m not holding my breath.
Not bad, they charge you for what you eat and now they charge for what you don’t eat! They should just meter every human and charge them for every minute they exist!
My wise old mom used to tell me to eat everything on my plate because chinese kids were starving. Little did she know that by making me eat every morsel she was helping to stop food waste
and to keep those kids from starving!
They should just install a conveyor belt and send it all north.
That would have to be better than mining for corn at the latrine.
Reduce the waste, feed some of it to the cats and dogs that will become tomorrow’s dinner.
Is it too late to get the Roto-Rooter franchise? I’ve a feeling the toilets are gonna get a workout!
When I was a little kid the line was, “Finish all your food, because children are starving in Europe” (they were, actually – this was just after the War). I could never figure out how they were being helped by me choking down my last few bites of broccoli, though. Finally one day, after hearing that for about the hundredth time, I suggested to my mother that we send them the food instead. After all – they wanted it, and I didn’t. It made perfect sense to me as a child. I was dead serious, too, but I got my butt swatted for being a smart aleck.
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“I suggested that we send them the food instead”
That was my standard reply to the starving kids statement.
Through years of having to eat food that tastes crappy to me, I now don’t eat what I don’t like, ever!
By 2018, SoKo will become the worlds fattest country…