My
latest article on
Guardian Sustainable Business once again covers the innovation occurring in South Korea to combat
food waste. The country is close to implementing RFID-enabled waste bins in which Koreans will be required to dispose food scraps. While
Korea has made huge progress on reducing the amount of food wasted by consumers and businesses, diminished landfill space and new regulations are pushing more stringent measures to increase
waste diversion efforts.
Some may say that new innovations and systems like those SK Telecom developed to deal with waste treat the symptom rather than the causes, and they may have a point. But economic measures, whether rewarding or punitive in nature, can help change consumer behavior. Education campaigns have their role (such as the 1970s anti-littering public service announcements in the USA), but they take a long time. Technologies like those developed in Korea and processes like
closed loop systems can not only complement a change in habits, they can even speed them along.
Read the full article here.
About The Author
Leon Kaye
Leon Kaye is the founder and editor of GreenGoPost.com and its advisory division,
GGP Media.
Contact him to discuss how he can work with your organization or event.
His focus is making the business case for sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
He writes for San Francisco-based
Triple Pundit,
Inhabitat and now
The Guardian, for which he writes about corporate responsibility, water, and green building. He has also written for AIA's
Architect Magazine.
Leon works out of Fresno and Silicon Valley, California, and when he has free time, he enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, weightlifting, and planning his next trip to one of the 60 countries he has visited. He has an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business and is also a proud graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) and Cal State-Fresno.
My latest article on Guardian Sustainable Business once again covers the innovation occurring in South Korea to combat food waste. The country is close to implementing RFID-enabled waste bins in which Koreans will be required to dispose food scraps. While Korea has made huge progress on reducing the amount of food wasted by consumers and businesses, diminished landfill space and new regulations are pushing more stringent measures to increase waste diversion efforts.
Some may say that new innovations and systems like those SK Telecom developed to deal with waste treat the symptom rather than the causes, and they may have a point. But economic measures, whether rewarding or punitive in nature, can help change consumer behavior. Education campaigns have their role (such as the 1970s anti-littering public service announcements in the USA), but they take a long time. Technologies like those developed in Korea and processes like closed loop systems can not only complement a change in habits, they can even speed them along.
Read the full article here.
