Difficult-to-treat food waste to be solved with 'microorganisms'

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It is not easy to throw away food waste in hot and humid weather like these days. Recently, interest in food processing equipment using microorganisms is increasing. Because it is convenient and good for the environment, it can be used not only at home but also in large marts that generate a lot of garbage.

This is reporter Han Ji-yeon.

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is a food processor using microorganisms.

The inside is kept at 40 degrees Celsius.

[(It's warm?) It's an environment for microbes to live. When it dies, it becomes a bit like porridge.]

Microorganisms decompose food waste and 95% of it disappears as water.

Let's put ramen in the microbial food processor.

About an hour passed, and the ramen disappeared without a trace, leaving about 5% of the by-products in the form of soil.

[Choi Il-soon / Songpa-gu, Seoul: Since we are a family of five, we had to take a 2-liter garbage bag and throw it away. (The microbial food processor) disappears when you just put it in.] As home

-cooked food became commonplace due to Corona, the food processor market increased more than 7 times last year compared to the previous year. This is because the product is much more environmentally friendly than polluting the environment.

[Eun-Kyung Kang / Manager of Microbial Food Processing Company: It is beneficial to the environment because it reduces carbon and furthermore, it is used as an environmental resource through composting.] It

is also introduced one after another in large supermarkets that produce large amounts of fruit and vegetable by-products.

From damaged peaches to withered cabbage leaves and half-rotten onions.

[It's badly rotted, so I'll just throw it away.] When

you put it in a microbial food processor and run it, most of it decomposes into water and goes down the drain.

[In the case of cabbage, it decomposes in about an hour because it has a lot of moisture.]

Most of the food waste generated at the mart is disposed of.

[Mihyun Lee / Supermarket ESG Promotion Team Manager: (Previously) More than 100kg of food waste came out per day. After installing this device, there is no odor, it is light and it is good for the environment.] As

eco-friendly consumption increases, the utilization of food processor using microorganisms is expected to increase.

(Video editing: Hwang Ji-young, VJ: Park Hyun-woo)