Garbage Disposal Guide in Korea: general waste and food waste

When you started to live in Korea, you will notice that the garbage disposal in Korea works it little diiferent than other country. Let's find out how it works and how you can deal with general waste and food waste.

Content

1. How to deal with general waste in Korea
> Price and where to buy garbage bag
> Location and Time to dipose garbage bag
> List of food waste but seperated to regular waste

2. How ti deal with food waste in Korea
> List of fruit peels that correspond to food waste
> List of the fruit waste that correspond to reqular waste

1. How to deal with general waste in Koera

In Korea, trash is thrown away in a standard plastic garbage bag. A standard plastic garbage bag was implemented in Korea in 1996 as a system to suppress waste discharge by requiring disposal costs for waste discharge. You can use standard plastic garbage bag when you throw away gernal waste. Please don't include food waste or the recycling. Thease garbage bag prices are different depending on specifications and use. There are various types of garbage bags in Korea such as a general garbage bag, food waste bag. The important thing is that each district has there own garbage bag and you will have to use the right garbage bag that belongs to the district you are living in.

👉 A standar plastic garbage bag are diffent depending on specification and use.

👉 A standar plastic garbage bag are uses for to throw away general waste, not for the recyclings or food waste.

👉 Each distric has there own standard plastic garbage bag.

[Price and where to buy garbage bag]

Usually you can by standard plastic garbage bags in convenience stores, chain supermarkets, or your friendly neighborhood marts. When you buy them, the salesperson in the store will ask you what size garbae bag do you need. You can check the size and the price for the garge bag blow. However, please be noted that any garbage bags are only available in bulk (20 bags are 1 set).

Size	3L	5L	10L	20L
Price(Won)/1sheet	100 won	150 won	290 won	850 won

※ Price and the size could be differnt depening on each district. ※

Blow list is the types of food waste that people are mostly confused about, but they should be seperated to regular waste.

[ Location and Time to dipose garbage bag]

How to dispose general waste can be different depending on where you live. Usually if you are living in an apartment or villa, there will be specific location and time for it.

[ List of food waste but seperated to regular waste ]

Vegetables: Garlic, onion, corn, etc. stalks and skins, chives/green onion roots
Fruits: hard shells such as nuts / walnuts / chestnuts / peanuts, peaches / apricots / persimmons, nukes and fruit seeds
Meat: Hair and bone of cattle/pigs/chicken etc.
Seafood: mussels / clams / conch / abalone / cockle / sea squirt / oyster shells
Shells: eggs / duck eggs / quail eggs / ostrich eggs, etc

2. How to deal with food waste in Korea

When you distinquish between reqular garbe and food waste, there is a find of food waste that are sometimes confusing. Food waste are used as compost, bio-gas. and feed for livestock after processing. It is separates into general waste and food waste by whether an animal can eat or not. Here are the types of food waste that people are mostly confused about.

[ List of fruit peels that correspond to food waste.]

a watermelon peel
Melon peel
Tangerine (dried or not dried)
a banana peel
an apple peel
a pear peel
an orange peel
a strawberry stalk
a tomato stalk
grape flesh
a grape peel
grape seeds

※ Among them, tangerines are the most difficult to distinguish. In general, many people say soft tangerine peels are food waste, and dried tangerine peels are general waste. However, dried tangerine peels are also classified as food waste, so please refer to them.