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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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 Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:25 pm Post subject: How to dispose of American OJ containers, cans, & oil? |
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I've got kinda a dumb question. I did ask my co-teacher 1sthow to do my waste disposal, but got no explanation. I know pink bags are general trash and green are garbage while water and beer bottles go in regular shopping bags.
What do I do with these 1.89 liter Del Monte Gold orange juice cartons? What about cans? What about spent cooking oil from my fish fry last night? It's easy to pour corn oil down the drain, but wrong. I know only 1 liter of oil going into the river makes 100,000 liters of water unlivable for fish as it prevents the water from holding oxygen for aquatic life to survive.
Maybe we need to get a sticky going on how to properly dispose of our waste while in Korea? I'd change the thread title to, "How to properly dispose of your waste in Korea," if we can sticky this thread topic. |
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i_teach_esl
Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:33 am Post subject: |
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| My officetel has a trash and recycling corner where you separate your plastics and bottles into their respective bins. For me at least, the cartons go in with cardboard. Just make sure you squish them down flat. |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:46 am Post subject: |
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Well this is not Seoul and I shouldn't have to email Seoul for help on understanding how to do trash. I just wanted to know how experienced teachers handled these sorts of things properly. I should had been told this, especially when I asked. It's just that western style things, especially if it's American, are not in the scope of Korean waste disposal.
For example. Since no one at schools eat bananas any ol' time like Westerners do, their are no garbage cans, except the slop bucket in the lunch room and it's not set up at 9 or 11 AM or 3PM when I'm eating bananas. It's like, "should I just throw my banana peel in the paper can since it's the only one available?" I know someone has to go through every single little thing by hand and those unlucky ones are my students! It's not like in America where you just put it all in one bag and it gets buried in the landfill, not to say that's a better system. My consumerism is very different than most Koreans so my waste is different and sometimes out of their scope. I wonder what they do with my strange American alfredo jars I get off of Gmarket. How about those bottles of German beer?
What do Koreans do with spent frying oil?
Why is the waste disposal system so vague? Is there a lack of communication? |
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i_teach_esl
Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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robot, there are multiple global village locations, i gave you the main website, but you can email/call to ask for help in your area.
youve just arrived in korea and youre going through some culture shock and anxiety, so i forgive you for being an a55hole to me. youre welcome. |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| i_teach_esl wrote: |
robot, there are multiple global village locations, i gave you the main website, but you can email/call to ask for help in your area.
youve just arrived in korea and youre going through some culture shock and anxiety, so i forgive you for being an a55hole to me. youre welcome. |
Thanks for your input. Sorry for the misunderstanding. No Global Village near me. I'm not being an a55 to you, I'm poking one at Korea who fails to tell me anything, even if I ask, but a country that just blatantly litters riversides and forests while passing out fines to those caught not properly separating trash and buying special color coded bags. I did read on this site a while back that you can get fined like 300,000 won for doing your trash wrong. And in a smalltown, they do look at what I'm doing so I want to be responsible and set a good example. For example, I'm out fishing at the riverside yesterday, I bag my beer bottles, bait package, and plastic bag rather than leaving it on the shore like the Korean anglers do. Big inconsiderate polluters. It's not only right to pick up after your riverside party, but it's also courteous to leave a natural looking setting the way you found it so the next angler doesn't have an eye sore not to mention how the pastics poison the river. Maybe I and the other anglers didn't catch anything yesterday, because the fish are dead due to pollution? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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Put all recyclables together. It can be a shopping bag, cardboard box, anything. I put paper, plastic, and glass in these.
Put all leftover food trash in a separate bag.
Anything that doesn't fit in those 2 categories go into the regular trash bags.
Some places have bins hear the building where you sort your recyclables. Also, there are trash bins where you can dump food trash. I bought a box of plastic sandwich (food) bags at emart and put all my food trash in these. I take it outside to the food waste bin and dump everything inside. |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Ah yes, it's different in each town. In some towns, you have bins to just dump into while other places you use color coded bags you purchase at a local store. Not all of us are putting garbage in tiny green bags and trash in pink bags and then setting them on the side of the road like I am.
Since I know the color coded bagging system of my local area and then know I can use regular shopping bags for recyclables like bottles and cartons, I should do just fine with no issues. |
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ChinaBoy
Joined: 17 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:38 am Post subject: |
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I don't sort anything. Well, I don't put bottles in the bags, because they're too big and I don't want to keep buying more bags.. so I guess I do sort something
surely people aren't going to rifle through an entire bag of trash just looking for a banana peel, are they? and if they do, they sure can't explain it to you in English |
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