New York has a food waste problem. South Korea has already solved it
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South Korea's 30-year transformation of food waste management has reduced the proportion sent to landfill from 97% in the 1990s to nearly zero by 2023. The system includes mandatory food waste separation since 1997, a 2005 landfill ban, and smart RFID-enabled bins now numbering 151,934 across the country, serving over 8.61 million households. New York City is now adopting the same model.
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