Here is an 18th floor view of the girls sorting our trash.Here in Korea, you have to recycle everything. Well, technically you do not HAVE to recycle, but it is financially in your best interest to do so. Non-recyclables are placed in a special, individually purchased trash bag, and these bags are smaller than a regular kitchen sized bag and cost 1050 won ($1.11) each. Anyone else out there paying $22.00 for a 20 count box of trash bags? Recycling is not that difficult, as there is a sorting area just outside the apartment, and we have gotten into a new trash groove.
The teensy little trash cans with yellow lids are for food scraps (I said EVERYTHING gets recycled!) that get recycled into feed for livestock. The scraps are picked up every Friday by a small truck that looks like a cross between a trash truck and a concrete truck. Scraps are dumped into a heated and rotating backend. I watched from the window one day, and could feel the warmth off the truck - THAT was a surprise. In spite of the potiential assualt on the olfactory senses, there was no stink involved. (whew!)
Accumulating these tidbits of leftovers has been interesting. We were keeping our food scraps under the sink, but in the early days we would forget this little detail. (Did you know there are good old Alabama fruit flies all the way out here in Korea?) Now, thanks to some advice from Miri, our little scrap bowl stays in the freezer. Also, the sink has a special drain for catching these scraps. There is a 2 part plastic basket under the removable drain. Just remove the drain cover and basket, then toss the pieces of food that have collected there. I did not know until recently, that this basket has a special lid. When you lock the lid down and turn it to the right, the basket will spin really fast and sling all the water out of the scraps and down the drain! A high tech drain, that has got to be plugged into the wall somewhere! What is it with this place and electrified water sources???
Okay, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here is the sink with the oversized drain. (You can click the picture for a larger view-just in case you cannot get enough of my kitchen sink!) The first round thing is the stopper, so I can fill the sink with water. The second is a drain cover that will allow water and food stuffs to flow through, but not utensils. The black one is what covers the drain when you want to start up the Tilt-A-Whirl. Even before I knew about the carnival ride for scraps, I loved this sink!
Since we are on the amazing subject of kitchen sinks, this is beneath the sink. All the pipes in the back are where the hot water flows in the winter to warm the floors. There is a "map" on the cabinet door, and you can adjust the flow of water into each room according to the pipe's number.
I am sooooooooo looking forward to warm floors!!!
The teensy little trash cans with yellow lids are for food scraps (I said EVERYTHING gets recycled!) that get recycled into feed for livestock. The scraps are picked up every Friday by a small truck that looks like a cross between a trash truck and a concrete truck. Scraps are dumped into a heated and rotating backend. I watched from the window one day, and could feel the warmth off the truck - THAT was a surprise. In spite of the potiential assualt on the olfactory senses, there was no stink involved. (whew!)
Accumulating these tidbits of leftovers has been interesting. We were keeping our food scraps under the sink, but in the early days we would forget this little detail. (Did you know there are good old Alabama fruit flies all the way out here in Korea?) Now, thanks to some advice from Miri, our little scrap bowl stays in the freezer. Also, the sink has a special drain for catching these scraps. There is a 2 part plastic basket under the removable drain. Just remove the drain cover and basket, then toss the pieces of food that have collected there. I did not know until recently, that this basket has a special lid. When you lock the lid down and turn it to the right, the basket will spin really fast and sling all the water out of the scraps and down the drain! A high tech drain, that has got to be plugged into the wall somewhere! What is it with this place and electrified water sources???
Okay, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here is the sink with the oversized drain. (You can click the picture for a larger view-just in case you cannot get enough of my kitchen sink!) The first round thing is the stopper, so I can fill the sink with water. The second is a drain cover that will allow water and food stuffs to flow through, but not utensils. The black one is what covers the drain when you want to start up the Tilt-A-Whirl. Even before I knew about the carnival ride for scraps, I loved this sink!
Since we are on the amazing subject of kitchen sinks, this is beneath the sink. All the pipes in the back are where the hot water flows in the winter to warm the floors. There is a "map" on the cabinet door, and you can adjust the flow of water into each room according to the pipe's number.
I am sooooooooo looking forward to warm floors!!!
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