Just throw everything in a regular trash bag, except something that can inform your identity, such as a receipt etc.. then you won't be in a trouble

There are companies that buy "mixed" trash by the bag, sort it at their facility, and sell the recyclables. A lot of commercial buildings and universities do this.

In my old place (Villa) we used to separate everything. Put it outside and a truck came up and dumped everything into the same place and crushed it all together. Utterly pointless.

Those who say is illegal is not informed.

It depends on the building/street and their contract with the garbage man.

Theres basically 2 types 1] they take ONLY the ones in the bags you paid for 2] the one the building pays for and they just take it all and sort it themselves

I think garbage disposal in korea is a scam or a joke. For instance I've been to the e formula race at the sport complex a couple of years ago, different buns for recycling (paper or cans or waste etc). At the end of the day i saw the Garbage men just mixing the bags in front of our eyes

1. Sauce goes down the drain. Solids into a food trash bag/음식 쓰레기 봉투.
2. Yes. They're just shopping bags that you can use as an ordinary trash bag. Designated waste is basically anything ordinary that isn't what you're not allowed to put in it. Hence why you get told what you cannot put in them.

Nam-gu doesn't help btw. There's a Nam-gu in Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, Incheon, Pohang, and Ulsan.

you'll get your answer quicker if you google about the specific trash you are throwing away. it will lyk if it's recyclable or just toss it in trashbin

Does Sidong only process waste from the coal mining? Or does other waste go in from elsewhere as well?

Also how many coal mines do you have and how much waste are they generating?

They are recycled.

In Rom's case, he works on the systems that ensure that such recycling — which has to accommodate an enormous number of different species' biologies — functions correctly.

If I remember correctly, we see Mariner hauling waste-collection canisters out of the holodeck's niches to be transported elsewhere, presumably a central-collection point for such waste to be recycled. Now, why isn't that material just piped elsewhere, instead of collecting in barrels? We're not told, but considering that holodecks require their own, special power sources, it's not a stretch to assume those systems have other unexpected quirks for unknowable reasons.

Im sure you could pee straight into a food replicator and have it recycled like so much room temperature earl gray tea, but I doubt anyone would agree to come to your quarters for dinner if they knew you did that. Even though dealing with hazardous waste is much easier in the future thanks to sci-fi technologies, it would still be important to minimize any chance of contamination of water or food stuffs

The only problem with Mariner’s duty is it isn’t an automated or at least centralized system of waste management. She had to manually unload the waste canister and traipse through the ship with presumably hazardous materials.

Rom’s duty at least can be imagined as some sort of monitoring system for localized and non-localized waste management which feeds to replicators for dereplication into material stock and power recovery.

the need to ensure those systems function smoothly will never die out

But recycling it is waste management, yeah? Everything between the point it leaves your butt and the point it's converted to replenish the matter or energy stores, all the logistics and equipment involved, that's your waste management.

And whatever else is involved, for public health reasons they would probably want to monitor bodily waste at the municipal level. Recently during covid, testing sewage has been an important source of information.

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I don't know a thing about modding, but I came across the underground waste management system that exists in Bergen, Norway.

You basically drop your waste into the correct recycling "bin", the size of a slightly large street garbage can, and its eventually sucked in 60-70km/h to the nearest recycling facility. It's a massive vacuum cleaner, and the first of its kind. And it greatly reduced the heavy traffic associated with daily garbage collection in the old narrow brick streets.

What can't be recycled, like residual waste, is burned and transformed to heat energy, that's then pumped back into the city, for district heating and electricity. Some food waste is also made into manure, if I'm not mistaken.

This also helps eliminating the smell of garbage in small allies as well as making it harder for rats to thrive etc.

PDF: It's called The BossNett (garbage net)

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No kidding, if you could connect it with pipes similar to the water pipes. It would then send it to the incineration plants.

Wdym no trash service? Like the city doesn’t pick it up?

I understand that in America you may get shot for knocking on a neighbor’s door to ask, but I highly doubt that is something you need to worry about in Korea.

You can use this I guess??

https://www.covering.app/

Post this on Korea sub. I am sure they will find a good answer for you. As far as I know there is trash pick up day and your neighbors will pile trash on the streetside on that day.

In 2024, South Korea's Government Debt to GDP was 46.80 percent.

France Debt to GDP is 117%. clear day light re Korea.

What's US debt to GDP ratio?

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Had no idea they had lots of hiking trails

You're writing. That is a basic skill. Elementary school students do this.

Since they mentioned Tokyo, I read recently that even though Japan has been in net population decline for years, Tokyo keeps growing.

As all the little towns and cities thin out and get greyer, everyone moves to the big hubs. It's probably one reason population decline doesn't feel as menacing, because most people still experience being crowded in a big city, even as the countryside becomes abandoned

Yes, U.S. immigration officials recently detained nearly 500 workers, the majority of whom were South Korean nationals, in a raid at a Georgia electric vehicle battery plant. Most of the detained individuals were considered to be in the U.S. illegally, with authorities stating some crossed the border unlawfully while others overstayed their visas or violated the terms of their entry by working without authorization

I don’t know the details in this case, but it’s perfectly normal for a company to fly in their engineers and technicians to help set up a plant. I’m sure they were paid in Korea and were here on business. Like ya know, how businessmen who fly to different countries to work on engineering projects usually operate. Like I have done. Do ice think every engineer who flys to the US to repair a piece of plant equipment has to have a green card and pays taxes in the US, that’s not how it works! I’ve worked setting up semiconductor plants in the US and in South Korea. It’s totally normal for have the people on site to be from different countries. After the plant is running then it’s US operators and technicians and our company might employ one local to be on site / be a local contact but during build and commissioning it’s almost all foreigners.

The South Korean government hasn't issued statements yet to the effect of "yo, wtf, they had valid H1-B work visas". I think they may have over-stayed work visas or arrived on tourist visas and worked.

However I don't think these are "immigrants" I think they have technical expertise and they are getting a high tech factory set up for their employer, then they will go home with fat paychecks when it is running. A violation of immigration law, but I would speculate that rather than "taking" jobs, they are setting jobs up for American workers.

According to here, it was a mix.

> [Steven Schrank, the lead Georgia agent of Homeland Security Investigations,] said that some of the detained workers had illegally crossed the U.S. border, while others had entered the country legally but had expired visas or had entered on a visa waiver that prohibited them from working.

They actually were illegals. Some overstayed their visas and some were fine to be illegal. It was part of an agreement between US and Korea.

They were employed by a contractor:

“Hyundai also said that "based on our current understanding, none of those detained is directly employed by Hyundai Motor Company".”

“Hyundai has zero tolerance for those who don't follow the law," it said.”

Korea is not disputing that they were working illegally and is sending a charter plane to return them:

“On Sunday, Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said that South Korea and the U.S. had finalized negotiations on the workers' release, with South Korea planning to send a charter plane to bring more than 300 workers home, as soon as remaining administrative steps are completed.”

A witness said:

“The man said he believed nearly all the workers had some legal right to be in the US, but were on the wrong type of visas or their right to work had expired.”

ICE said:

“On Friday, the day after the raid, the ICE agent in charge of the operation, Steven Schrank said all 475 detainees were "illegally present in the United States". He said they were workers "who have entered through a variety of different means into the United States, some illegally crossed the border, some that came in through visa waiver and were prohibited from working, some that had visas and overstayed their visas".”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yqg0rln74o

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/06/nx-s1-5532604/hyundai-immigration-raid-georgia-south-korea

Billion dollar mega industry could not apply for the proper visas, because, despite being made aware several times in the last years, the US administration couldn't be bothered to set up a visa type that would cover this scenario, referring the companies to apply for the ill-fitting B-1 visa.

Now billion dollar mega industry take money elsewhere and Georgia economy go sinky bye-bye.

It is absolutely within the realm of possibility (probability) that they were legitimate. I don't know the nuance of labor law, (nuance? WTF is that?) but because someone who is employed in another country, and is payed in another country, happens to be doing work in THIS country, doesn't mean they are violating a B1 Visa by being employed at an American company. There work may just HAPPEN to be here, while still being employed in S.Korea.

South Korea is definitely not happy with this.