Seoul announced an aggressive plan to cut household waste in preparation for a nationwide ban on dumping garbage in landfills.
Under the initiative, the city aims to reduce the annual volume of general residential waste by 10 liters per person over the next two years — about the same as one standard volume-based trash bag. The total reduction target is comparable to the daily waste output of an entire district, or about 120 metric tons.
The announcement comes as Korea enters a new regulatory phase this year. Local governments can no longer bury household waste in landfills unless it has first been processed through sorting and incineration. Only incineration ash may now be dumped in landfil sites.
The shift brings a formal end to Korea's long-sta
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