#SouthKorea has years of experience in diverting food waste
1990s main landfills reached capacity
1995 #payasyouthrow implemented
2005 banned food in landfills
2013 banned ocean dumping of leachate
2020 #radiofrequencyidentification RFID bins track waste down to the gram put in place

#AlbuquerqueNM charges its 558K population for 95gal trash bins collected weekly. #MedfordMA population 58K uses 64gal bins now collected weekly but will change to biweekly at no charge. The savings will be $1M/year. MA Dept of Environmental Protection has a #payasyouthrow program

Some cities have a #onesizefitsall approach to solidwaste. Others offer 2sizes of trash bins. Still others are moving to #payasyouthrow policies. Those who eat fresh or compost are ill treated by the onesize approach & subsidize those who rack up overflowing trash weekly. #solidwastepolicy

Price trash, not recycling.
Cities using pay-as-you-throw cut household garbage by ~30% while saving on collection.
How it works + examples → cheer.xsbrt.com/pay-as-you-t...

Would this fly in your city? #PayAsYouThrow

Pilot scheme to encourage more recycling buff.ly/4hRejCi
#BigBadger1 says this will be interesting! Done elsewhere before with residents revolting as it was a presumed precursor to #PayAsYouThrow or #WeighAsYouThrow schemes.
BTW, all #WheelieBins are #RFID chip ready 😉