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Eco-friendly Lunar New Year's Day with less food waste in Korea |
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Last week was a Lunar New Year Holiday in Korea. During that time most of family members get together and celebrate the new year's day while eating many traditional foods. Every year in this holiday season, local governments always have headaches on pileup of food wastes coming out of each family because more than 30 million people are visiting their hometowns. In general, the amount of food wastes during the holiday is more than twice as much as that in the normal season. In addition, even collecting companies are off duty during the holiday, so it would make matters worse by producing more pileups of food wastes. This year's Lunar New Year Holiday, the Climate-Environmental Office of Seoul City, along with the Korea Climate-Environment Network and the Green Citizen Association, released a campaign about how to make an eco-friendly Lunar New Year Holiday. Also, the Ministry of Environment opened a booth in some major train stations and distributed fliers and eco-bags to homecoming people. Among the many ways to make the holiday more eco-friendly, the Climate-Environmental Office suggested using public transportation, using less disposable products while traveling and making just proper amount of food for family members. Traditionally in Korea, making enough food has been known as being kind and generous to others, but this may not be the best way to treat family members in the environmental way. The campaign says that 20% reduction of food wastes can save about US 150 million dollars per year!!! It may be a good way to share with your cousins and grandparents how to protect our environment and what would be the eco-friendly holidays. Reference: http://www.yonhapnewstv.co.kr |
   
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Soram ,Eco-friendly Lunar New Year's Day
Posted 22-02-2016 06:02
Great Job. Happy belated lunar new year dear Soram Claire Kim.. :) t
Posted 18-02-2016 05:32
WOAH! Both of government and its people need to commit themselves for not wasting any food. And it's a great way to the campaign thought. Good job Korea!
Posted 17-02-2016 22:05
Happy belated lunar new year Soram :). It's the combination of traditional celebrations and preservation of the environment
Posted 16-02-2016 23:49
Happy belated new year dear Soram :)
Posted 16-02-2016 04:57
Happy belated lunar new year dear Soram Claire Kim.. :) the campaigns to use public transport and no food wastage promote to be eco-friendly one..
Posted 16-02-2016 00:20
Food wastage during an event or celebration contributions to a significant portion of the total food wasted annually. I am really impressed to see the action of the Government and relevant organizations in trying to promote not only less food wastage but also less energy wastage as well.
Posted 15-02-2016 18:59
Dear Soram, first of all wishing you a belated happy lunar new year :) I am so happy that different governmental organization joined hands to reduce food waste during celebration. Change in perspective, large amount of food symbolises generosity need to be changed among people. I hope these sorts of activism and efforts from organizations and government continues in Korea in coming days as well :)
Posted 15-02-2016 18:53
I am very happy to read that through this campaign on the occasion of 'Chinese Lunar New Year', people were reminded of their environmental responsibilities and they were given eco-tips. Overcooking should not be considered large hearted approach or generousity. It's time that people should change their attitude. I am sure that with active programs like this from govt, things would change for better soon in Korea. Thanks for the lovely update.
Posted 15-02-2016 18:15
Fully agree with you Soram. This drive is very powerful especially during holiday season. We all must support the efforts of the Government & other authorities in this regard.
Posted 15-02-2016 15:04