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Egg and quail-egg shells: how to dispose of it in Korea

Separate the egg contents from the hard shell. Keep the shell out of the food-waste container.

Food waste exclusions

How to dispose of it

  1. Separate the egg contents from the hard shell. Keep the shell out of the food-waste container.
  2. Place household eggshells in the local general-waste bag.
  3. Empty the paper or plastic egg carton and sort that packaging separately by material.

Before you put it out

  • This classification concerns the shell; it does not mean that a whole egg is classified as general waste.
  • Being a kitchen by-product does not automatically make something food waste. Check bones and shellfish shells separately too.

Sources & local guidance

Prepared by Pixelone, the developer of Korea Recycle Guide. Follow your municipality and building's current instructions when they differ from this general guide.

Guide reviewed: . This is not the source dataset's update date.

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