Unloading the food waste at a disposal facility in Seoul. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
One of the most covered topics in our pages during the decade since we started paying attention to it, still going strong for all the wrong reasons; so, our thanks to the New York Times for assigning John Yoon (reporting, writing) and Chang W. Lee (for photographs and video) to go to South Korea:
Food waste being separated from plastic bags at the Goyang facility.
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