“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.” - Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • How many categories of trash/bag are there?

    Two, basically. Green one is for normal, yellow one is for food waste. Grey one is for recyclable stuff which I’ve never seen for myself which I assume is because there’s almost always a different company that handles them. There are some special bags for something like glass, dirt…etc which I have no personal experience with. But that’s just a bit fancier normal bag so only two it is: normal and food waste bag.

    Those kind of machines I’ve showed earlier are very common but only in big apartment complexes, which is, still, one of the most common housing in South Korea. If there’s no such machine near you, you’ll just have to buy bags for food waste.

    Trash collectors don’t really take a hard look at the contents but when it’s so obvious that there’s food waste in a normal bag, it’s about $100 fine for you and the garbage won’t get collected.

    But in reality, quite a lot of people do throw out food waste in a normal bag, not specifically because food waste bag is significantly more expensive(I’m not sure if it actually is more expensive or not. It’s such an insignificant amount of money for me to track) but because convenience.

    If you go shopping in South Korea, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll get plastic bag like this. This works as both shopping bag and normal waste bag. Pretty neat(although they tear easier than any other bags ☹)