Internet-based total garbage management system called "Allbaro" has been developed and introduced by the Ministry of Environment and Korea Environment Corporation in 2010.  Since 2000, the Ministry of Environment of Korea developed and improved the waste management system with effective tracking and analyses on the disposed wastes of various kinds such as medical, industrial and household wastes.  The very first system required any entity or hospital that dispose and discharges more than 200 ton of legally specified garbage each year to use the system in order to trace and record the status of waste management.  The system was not as well-organized as the current system, Allbaro, in that each disposing entity, delivering entity and managing entity should manually input certain information about the status of waste and keep the documents on their own in the office or storage, resulting in many omissions and human errors. With such manual system, the effective management on the waste seemed to be impossible.

Over the last 15 years, the Ministry of Environment of Korea made efforts to develop an optimum system with internet-based electronic on-time program and finally establish the IT based total garbage management system, Allbaro, meaning in Korean "correctly" or "accurately".  Every business entity who disposes certain legally specified wastes (such as pesticide, hazardous materials, medical waste, asbestos construction waste or used oil) is obligated to use this electronic process program by correctly entering the information and status of the waste so that the waste can be handled effectively and transparently managed from dumping to a proper treatment such as recycling, landfill and incineration. Allbaro system consists of the following functions – (1) waste transfer information using internet and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), (2) permissions and approvals, (3) statistics of managed wastes, (4) information about recycled aggregates, (5) waste reduction planning and (6) automatic submission of the waste treatment results to a governmental authority.  

One of the noticeable features of this program is the RFID system where any designated container should have an RFID tag on the exterior of the container and the information of the container such as waste type, weight, disposing/delivering/managing person is entered in each step and all the information will be automatically sent to the system.  This RFID system is very useful in managing medical waste in order to trace such waste from the hospital to the incinerator.  The Ministry of Environment plans to use the data from this program to understand the current problems and improve the environmental policy.  Although this program looks very convenient once it is well set up among the users, because there are still many companies who have not been well-informed of the system, the website provides online training and local government encourages the entities to use the system more affirmatively.