Thursday, February 22, 2007

Confessions

I've lived in Seoul for 5 months and I don't know how to take out the recycling.

The garbage system in Korea, I think, is wonderful. Your neighborhood has designated bag colors and you buy bags as you need them. Then the pick up is free. We have green bags for food waste and white bags for other waste. We place the white bag out toward the back of our building with the other white bags, and put the green bags in one of two large garbage cans.

However, we have no idea what to do with our recycling, like pop cans, water bottles, and milk containers. They don't sell milk in gallons here, nor anything equivalent, so we buy a LOT of milk in about quart sizes. We go through a lot of these in a week. Which equals a lot of milk cartons. And then add those together with our other recycling.

Well, by the back door of our building, on the first floor, there is a garbage/recycling can for daily use of people who are in that area (there is a beauty shop, PC Room, etc. on this floor for the general public). So what do we do? We put all of our recycling in this can. Except it's kind of embarrassing to do this during the day when there are people around. We found a solution to that as well - we go at night after work, when nobody is around. We sneak down there with our arms full and one by one put our recyclables in whilst looking over our shoulders.

It's an exciting life we live, I can tell you that much.

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