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Category marks on a coded bag.
Also known as: Korean recycling marks, Waste separation mark Korea
The Korean marks identifying which waste stream a bag or item belongs to, under a volume-based disposal charge.
Identify the waste stream an item or bag belongs to.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
Sit on a volume-based charging system in which general waste must be put out in a bought district bag and recyclables need not, so the marks carry a direct cost: sorting correctly is what makes the bag smaller, and the marks are read for money rather than for virtue.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
Include a food waste stream with its own bag and its own mark, which most national schemes do not separate; Korea diverts food waste to animal feed and compost and prohibits it from landfill.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
A chasing-arrow triangle with a material name written beneath it, printed on packaging, and a coloured bag carrying a district name and a volume.