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What Composting Looks like in South Korea

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - DECEMBER 10: Food scraps are seen in a compost bin at The Slanted Door restaurant on December 10, 2010 in San Francisco, California. One year after the San Francisco board of supervisors passed the nation's strictest recycling law, the residents of San Francisco have composts more than any other city in the country, with a 200 percent one year jump in composting. The city has also achieved a better than expected 77 percent diversion from landfill goal that was set at 75 percent by 2010, the nation's highest for any city. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Today recycling materials are picked up for free and all other trash has a fee calculated by the size and number of bags. Today people in South Korea generate around 3 quarters of a pound of waste a day, and a family in Seoul spends about 6 dollars a month composting.