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Re:South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste by kwhitefoot on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:19AM (#19658029)
That's less than a kilo a week, say 120 g per person per day.

In my household I suspect that most of that is potato peelings, onion skins, orange, apple, and banana peel, teabags, etc.

If you drink tea five times a day you have 10 g of teabags.

So, what is the definition of food waste? If it is food that could be eaten then in my household of four people it is very close to zero. But still the kitchen compost bin is always full.

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Re:South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste by lostlogin on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:42PM (#19660925)
Coffee drinking adds up too. 3 coffees per day, 20g per coffee. Once you add in the extra coffee at weekends and visitors, it’s 30+ kgs of grounds per year. The garden seem to like them though.
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Re:South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste by airstrike on Sunday April 14, 2019 @11:15AM (#19659867)
> If you drink tea five times a day you have 10 g of teabags.

Who drinks tea five times a day??

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Re:South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste by BuildTheRobots on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:06AM (#19664708)
Good point - it's an entirely unrealistic number. It's just hit 1pm and I'm on my 6th already.
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Re:South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste by nicoburns on Sunday April 14, 2019 @12:24PM (#19660274)
You are clearly not from the UK! I know lot's of people who have 8-12 cups of tea a day (this is on the higher end, but not super unusual...)
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Re:South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste by dyarosla on Sunday April 14, 2019 @01:58PM (#19660721)
Or Russia, or India, or...
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Re:South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste by namarie on Sunday April 14, 2019 @11:39AM (#19660006)
Lots of people.
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Re:South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste by village-idiot on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:30AM (#19664806)
A fairly large portion of the world’s population?
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