https://archive.md/b370o
"DAEJEON, South Korea — Starting at 5 a.m. each day, dozens of trucks bring
more than 400 tons of stinky, sticky food waste from restaurants and homes to a
facility the size of two football fields — which transforms it into enough
green energy to power about 20,000 households.
The Daejeon Bioenergy Center is one of about 300 facilities that enable South
Korea to recycle nearly all of its 15,000 tons of daily food waste, which can
be composted into fertilizer, fed to livestock or turned into biogas, a kind of
renewable energy.
“This place takes care of half of the entire daily food waste that the city of
Daejeon produces,” said Jeong Goo-hwang, the plant’s chief executive, referring
to a city of 1.5 million about two hours outside Seoul.
Without it, most of the scraps would have gone into the ground, polluting the
soil and generating methane — a greenhouse gas far worse than carbon dioxide in
terms of global warming in the short run.
When South Korea started tackling this problem 20 years ago, it threw away 98
percent of its food waste. Today, 98 percent of food waste is turned into feed,
compost or energy, according to the South Korean Ministry of Environment. It
achieved this by banning food scraps from landfills and mandating that all
residents separate their food waste from their trash and recycling — and to pay
for the service through fees and fines."
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