Kilcullen Diary: Happy St Patrick's Day

DID YOU KNOW?

When South Korea banned putting food into landfills in 2005, just 2 per cent of food waste was recycled. Now 95 per cent is. Citizens who don’t compost can take food scraps to an area recycling station, where the waste is weighed and logged, and they are billed monthly based on the amount they toss out. Collected food is turned into fertiliser or animal feed, and methane and natural gases produced during the recycling process are also used to create energy that fuels the recycling facility.