South Korea recycles 97 percent of all food waste

In Seoul, Seunghwan Hong tosses his food scraps into a smart waste bin: he taps his card, the bin weighs the waste and he pays by weight. This is how South Korea's food waste recycling rate climbed from 2.6 percent in 1996 to nearly 97 percent in 2023, thanks to volume-based fees (1995), mandatory separation (1997), a landfill ban (2005)...