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reasonsforhope · 9 months

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"Of South Korea’s countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the first is that it’s been illegal since 2005, and the second is because they have perhaps the world’s most sophisticated food waste disposal infrastructure.

While representing a significant burden on the economy, the food waste disposal nevertheless produces ample supplies of animal feed, fertilizer, and biogas that heats thousands of homes.

As the New York Times’ John Yoo and Chang Lee reported from Seoul, South Korean cuisine tends to lend itself to creating food scraps, since many staple dishes come with anywhere from a few to a few dozen sides.

With the culture erring on the side of abundance rather than restraint, many of these small dishes of tofu, kimchi, bean sprouts, and other bites would be tossed in the landfill if it wasn’t illegal to do so.

The government put the ban hammer on it because the mountainous terrain isn’t ideal for landfill construction.

Instead, restauranteurs and street hawkers pay the municipality for a sticker that goes on the outside of special bins. Once filled with food scraps, they are left on the road for collectors in the morning who take 90% of all such waste in the country to specialized collection facilities.

At apartments and among residential housing areas, hi-tech food waste disposal machines are operated by a keycard owned by residents under contract with the disposal companies.

Once taken to the recycling facilities, the food is sorted for any non-food waste that’s mixed in, drained of its moisture, and then dried and baked into a black dirt-like material that has a dirt-like smell but which is actually a protein and fiber-rich feed for monogastric animals like chickens or ducks.

This is just one of the ways in which the food scraps are processed. Another method uses giant anaerobic digestors, in which bacteria break down all the food while producing a mixture of CO2 and methane used to heat homes—3,000 in a Seoul suburb called Goyang, for example. All the water needed for this chemical process comes from the moisture separated from the food earlier.

The remaining material is shipped as fertilizer to any farms that need it.

All the water content is sent to purification facilities where it will eventually be discharged into water supplies or streams.

While one such plant was shut down from locals complaining about the unbearable smell, many plants are odorless, thanks to a system of pipes built into the walls that eliminate it via chemical reaction.

It’s the way South Korea does it. Sure, it costs them around $600 million annually, but they have many admirers, including New York City which hopes to implement similar infrastructure in the coming years."

-via Good News Network, June 15, 2023

#south korea #korean food #kimchi #bean sprouts #food waste #landfill #circular economy #sustainability #waste disposal #sanitation #good news #hope #hope posting #new york city #restaurants

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noperopesaredope · 7 months

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People be out here saying "don't get the free plastic bags from the store, just buy reusable ones!" as though my parents haven't been using the same 10 free plastic bags for the past seven years.

Most things are reusable if you have enough determination.

This is a shitpost I support environmentalism and also people who need disposable shit for health reasons I just thought this was funny please don't hate me-

#environment #environmentalism #reusable #reduce reuse recycle #recycling #waste disposal #plastic bag #shitpost #made this post because i (college) student was buying emergency groceries and realized that i forgot my bag #and i had too much stuff to carry in my arms so the cashier asked if i wanted a bag #and my first thought was 'oh good a free bathroom trashbag'#like yes plastic bag are still bad but i also think it could be interesting to talk about the ways in which we still reuse disposable thing #i have been using the same paper plate for the past three meals #i throw it out when i think it will attract ants #growing up my parents subconsciously taught me every possible way i could reuse a disposable bag #so i don't completely mind it when i get one from the store because for me it's really similar to a normal reusable bag

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redeyeflyguy · 8 months

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Wonderful Things That May or May Not Be Wonderful!!! Well, after talking about figs yesterday, what do we do about figs that don't get eaten and have become past their prime? Well, we could just leave them there but that would get unsanitary. What we need to do is put them inside something where all the disgusting and discarded objects in one's home can go so they can be transported to an even larger place where all the disgusting and discarded objects in everyone's’ home can go. That's right, I'm talking about a trash can or bin or dumpster or whatever you call it! Expired food? Throw them in! Used napkins? Throw them in! Obliterated game consoles? Throw them in! Direct to DVD animated movies? Throw them in with certain exceptions! Trash-tier anime waifus? THROW THEM IN! That's right! If you don't want something anymore, just chuck it in the bin and forget about till Monday! Waste not, want not but if we are going to waste, it's nice to know that there is a plastic and/or metal canister where all the waste can disappear to for a brief time then disappear forever! Just remember to not put anything living in there. Life is precious, don't waste it! That would be messed up. So yeah, trash cans are wonderful...and smelly.

#wonderful #trash cans #trash bins #dumpsters #receptacle #sanatation #rubbish #discarded #throw it away #disgusting #stinky #clean #plastic #metal #garbage #waste management #waste #expired #waste disposal

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bacony-cakes · 6 months

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my recommended thinks i am a zoo or a children's daycare or maybe elvis

#tidybear animal shaped litter bin #waste disposal #trash bin #trash can #garbage can #glasdon international limited #elvis presley #plastic #garbage bin

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disposalqueen · 1 year

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starr-dumpsters · 5 months

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recyclemaxseo · 5 months

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a1servicegroup · 5 months

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missiondemolition · 7 months

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aquietwhyme · 7 months

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PSA

This is a reminder that if you use needles for any reason, you should dispose of them in a sharps container.

Whether you are diabetic and inject insulin, trans and inject hormones, use injectable drugs, have MRSA and use intravenous antibiotics, whatever the reason, please think of the safety of sanitation workers. Razors too ought to go in a sharps container.

A hard tough plastic container is ideal, the kind that laundry detergent comes in, or Ovaltine, anything that won't shatter or be pierced by the needles without great force being applied, and wrap it in duct tape and label it when it's mostly full. Local regulations differ on what's legally required, though of course most people ignore them anyway, but follow those if they have specific requirements.

The job of a sanitation worker is quite hazardous, and generally on the middle to low pay scale (though that too differs enormously by area) so think of it not only as doing better by the environment but by the workers that help society function.

#sharps #needles #injection #psa #sanitation #garbage #safety #waste disposal #diabetes #trans #opiods #community responsibility

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mr-up-on-a-downer · 2 years

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i don’t know something tells me blaming everything on a immigrant minority population sounds like cope but that’s just me

#maybe it’s less diversity and more like urban areas are just bound to be shit holes due to a lack of strong policies in regards to #waste disposal #and using eco friendly and recyclable materials #on top of not having stricter punishments for people littering #but that last one is ymmv

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reasonsforhope · 9 months

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"In Washington D.C., a sophisticated sewage treatment plant is turning the capital’s waste into a form of capital: living capital that is fertilizing the gardens of farms of the Mid-Atlantic region and saving vast quantities of resources.

Described by the workers’ there as a “resource recovery plant,” D.C. Water run a biogas plant and high-quality fertilizer production in the course of their dirty duty to ensure the city’s waste finds a safe endpoint.

The nation’s capital is exceptional at producing waste from the toilet bowls of the 2.2 million people who live, work, and commute through the city and its suburbs.

Reporting by Lina Zeldovich reveals that rather than trucking it all to a landfill, D.C. Water extract an awful lot of value from the capital crap, by looking at it as a resource to send through the world’s largest advanced wastewater treatment plant, which uses a “thermal hydrolysis process” in which it is sterilized, broken down, and shipped off for processing into “Bloom,” a nitrogen-rich, slow-release fertilizer product.

The other “Black Gold”

At their facility in southwest Washington, huge aeration tanks percolate the poo of everyone from tourists to the President. After it’s all fed into enormous pressure cookers where, under the gravity of six earth atmospheres and 300°F, the vast black sludge is rendered harmless.

Next this “Black Gold,” as Zeldovich described it, is pumped into massive bacterial-rich tanks where microbes breakdown large molecules like fats, proteins, and carbs into smaller components, shrinking the overall tonnage of sewage to 450 tons per day down from 1,100 at the start of the process.

This mass-micro-munching also produces methane, which when fed into an onsite turbine, generates a whopping 10 megawatts of green energy which can power 8,000 nearby homes. [Note: Natural gas (which is mostly methane) is definitely greener than coal and oil, but it still causes a significant amount of emissions and greenhouse gases.] The 450 tons of remaining waste from the D.C. feces are sent into another room where conveyor belts ring out excess fluid before feeding it through large rollers which squash it into small congregate chunks.

D.C. Water sends this to another company called Homestead Gardens for drying, aging, and packaging before it’s sold as Bloom.

“I grow everything with it, squashes, tomatoes, eggplants,” Bill Brower, one of the plant’s engineers, tells Zeldovich. “Everything grows great and tastes great,” he adds.

“And I’m not the only one who thinks so. We’ve heard from a lot of people that they’ve got the best response they’ve ever seen from the plants. Particularly with leafy greens because that nitrogen boost does well with leafy plants. And the plants seem to have fewer diseases and fewer pests around—probably because Bloom helps build healthy soils.”

While farms around the country are facing nutrient depletion in soils from over-farming, turning to synthetic fertilizers to make up the difference, introducing more such thermal hydrolysis plants could truly revolutionize the way humans look at their feces—as a way of restoring the country’s soils rather than polluting them. As Mike Rowe would say, it only takes a person who’s willing to get their hands dirty."

-via Good News Network, November 23, 2021

Note: You can buy this fertilizer yourself here!

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aquitainequeen · 10 months

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Of South Korea’s countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the first is that it’s been illegal since 2005, and the second is because they have perhaps the world’s most sophisticated food waste disposal infrastructure. While representing a significant burden on the economy, the food waste disposal nevertheless produces ample supplies of animal feed, fertilizer, and biogas that heats thousands of homes. As the New York Times’ John Yoo and Chang Lee reported from Seoul, South Korean cuisine tends to lend itself to creating food scraps, since many staple dishes come with anywhere from a few to a few dozen sides. With the culture erring on the side of abundance rather than restraint, many of these small dishes of tofu, kimchi, bean sprouts, and other bites would be tossed in the landfill if it wasn’t illegal to do so. The government put the ban hammer on it because the mountainous terrain isn’t ideal for landfill construction. Instead, restauranteurs and street hawkers pay the municipality for a sticker that goes on the outside of special bins. Once filled with food scraps, they are left on the road for collectors in the morning who take 90% of all such waste in the country to specialized collection facilities.