South Korea tries financial incentives to cut down on food waste

In South Korea, food waste already gets recycled on trash day. That’s the law — no food sent the way of the landfill. But that hasn’t cut back on the amount of food waste coming out of people’s kitchens in the first place. Jason Strother reports from Seoul on the latest attempt to change that.

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