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Mrs.Anteater said:
I remember seeing a map of who are the biggest polluters. China was first. Surprised me, because I stll had that picture of China being a vast land of mostly rice fields. But I suppose, us here buying all the cheap stuff produced in China, cheap because they don’t care about the environmental impact, at the same time exporting our garbage there under the umbrella of” recycling”, we have messed up China and don’t care, because it is far enough away.
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I'm actually also disappointed in South Korea's recycling plan. If one exists, I'm unaware of it. Perhaps there's one in place in Seoul (I would hope so) but Suwon and Seosan seem to be without. In Toronto, even I got used to putting things in the blue box, the grey box, and the food bin. Here it all just goes in the trash can. It's sad really.
 
Here in Toronto, what do they do with the recycling which is collected? I was at one of the garbage depots today to deposit our hazardous waste. There was a huge open tent with piles of recyclables. Since our paper, glass, cans, plastic, etc are all collected together, I assume this was a pile of everything. Does it go somewhere to be sorted?

I remember the blue and grey box days, @Jae but it all goes into the same bin now.

Possibly Etobicoke is different from the rest of the city.

Sorry for the tangent . . . back to Jae and Korea.
 
Jae said:
Here it all just goes in the trash can.
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To be fair, and I not saying this is what Korea is doing because I don't know, some countries do the sorting and separation at the back end rather than relying on citizens to do it. I will have to do some searching to figure out where I heard that.
 
paradox3 said:
Here in Toronto, what do they do with the recycling which is collected? I was at one of the garbage depots today to deposit our hazardous waste. There was a huge open tent with piles of recyclables. Since our paper, glass, cans, plastic, etc are all collected together, I assume this was a pile of everything. Does it go somewhere to be sorted?

I remember the blue and grey box days, @Jae but it all goes into the same bin now.
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:eek:

When did this change? We left Toronto (Etobicoke) in October, 2018. We were still doing the various boxes. I wasn't aware that other parts of the city had stopped...?

Recycling, Organics & Garbage
 
Sorry, I think I misunderstood your earlier post, @Jae.

We have the green bin for organics, the grey bin for garbage and the blue bin for all recyclables.

I was thinking of the days when we sorted our paper into open grey bins and our cans/ bottles into the open blue bins. Garbage in those days just went into cans (not city issued) or you could put out bags at the curb.
 
paradox3 said:
Sorry, I think I misunderstood your earlier post, @Jae.

We have the green bin for organics, the grey bin for garbage and the blue bin for all recyclables.

I was thinking of the days when we sorted our paper into open grey bins and our cans/ bottles into the open blue bins. Garbage in those days just went into cans (not city issued) or you could put out bags at the curb.
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Not really a misunderstanding. I should have been clearer - sorry about that paradox3.

We managed our waste at home by putting paper recyclables in the open grey bin, other recyclables in the open blue bin, garbage in the trash can and food waste in a small beige bin. That was inside our kitchen.

Then we took it all outside and put it in the appropriate bins you mentioned to go curbside.

We also donated used clothing from time-to-time to different charities.

Here in South Korea, there doesn't seem to be any recycling going on - unless as @Mendalla suggested is possible - they're doing it at the back end.
 
Jae said:
Not really a misunderstanding. I should have been clearer - sorry about that paradox3.

We managed our waste at home by putting paper recyclables in the open grey bin, other recyclables in the open blue bin, garbage in the trash can and food waste in a small beige bin. That was inside our kitchen.

Then we took it all outside and put it in the appropriate bins you mentioned to go curbside.

We also donated used clothing from time-to-time to different charities.

Here in South Korea, there doesn't seem to be any recycling going on - unless as @Mendalla suggested is possible - they're doing it at the back end.
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I am curious why you would separate the recyclables inside the house if they are all going to wind up in the same bin at the curb.
 
paradox3 said:
Sorry, I think I misunderstood your earlier post, @Jae.

We have the green bin for organics, the grey bin for garbage and the blue bin for all recyclables.

I was thinking of the days when we sorted our paper into open grey bins and our cans/ bottles into the open blue bins. Garbage in those days just went into cans (not city issued) or you could put out bags at the curb.
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And that's largely how Barrie still works it. Although we have Green Bins as well. So we have five categories of curbside pick up: Organics in a closed bin, Paper Recycling in a open bin, Container recycling in an open bin, Garbage in containers or bags, not to exceed 25 lbs., limit of 2 every other week unless you have "extra" tags. Yard waste in either reusable containers or paper bags, alternate week to garbage generally.
 
BetteTheRed said:
And that's largely how Barrie still works it. Although we have Green Bins as well. So we have five categories of curbside pick up: Organics in a closed bin, Paper Recycling in a open bin, Container recycling in an open bin, Garbage in containers or bags, not to exceed 25 lbs., limit of 2 every other week unless you have "extra" tags. Yard waste in either reusable containers or paper bags, alternate week to garbage generally.
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Ah yes, the yard waste - Toronto has that too - in the large, brown paper bags bought at such places as Home Depot.
 
Will be interesting to see how this gets played out - the KTU, a union of Korean teachers has spoken out against the use of Native English Teachers in Korean schools. They seem to be mostly against the use of NET's in public schools, while I'm employed by a private academy. If the public schools do drop NET's, competition for jobs at the private academies may increase. Korean teachers demand removal of native English speakers
 
Nativity is taken as bad from some sources while there is an alternate consideration ... if you happen to stand in the other shoes ...
 
Fabulous????? Is that an improvement over TO as SET there?

How that comes across as you left the former ... you could 'ave mist the understanding sector!

Like flowering things ... depends on the arrangement of the blooming parts ...
 
Pinga said:
Hey Jae, what's new in Korea?

How is school going? How are living conditions?
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Things in Korea are good Pinga, thank you for asking.

We had a change in school periods - each class went from 45 minutes to 50, but that's okay - just need to stretch things out a bit more.

I saw a Korean movie this past Saturday, "The Secret Mission." Good movie about the fight to keep the Korean language alive in the 40's

Here are some recent photos of life in S.K...

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I seem to remember you saying that you were working in a different location than your spouse.
Is that still occurring?
 
I know what it was like for me to be on the road weekly.

Does she travel to you, or you travel to her every weeend, or sometime during the week?
Is there anyone else in Seosan that is family?
 
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