Cost of Waste

Daron Dierkes has suggested the interesting idea of a Waste Dividend, highlighting the need for a new perspective on how we think about trash and responsibility for its disposal.

His great example of the system in Seoul makes me realize how much we currently think of trash as some kind of ‘right’, rather than a responsibility:  

“I live in Seoul where trash bags must be purchased from the government. The trash program is paid for in trash bag purchases. All organic waste must be composted, and everything else is easily comingled. E-waste and special pick-ups are intermittent. My actual 'trash' is equal to a third of a shoebox a week.”

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