Author(s)

J.H. Kim

Abstract

Solid waste or garbage from households and small businesses is managed by a challengeable system in Metropolitan Seoul, South Korea. It is known as the Seoul Volume-based Garbage Collection Fee (VGCF) system. Unlike the preceding system, which charged waste generators a fee for waste disposal in proportion to their property taxes, this newly designed system, which came into full effect in 1995, charges a fee according to the amount of garbage. Seoul VGCF system was introduced according to two theoretical principles: (1) public service ‘coproduction’-cooperative production between citizen and city government-principle or citizen volunteerism; and (2) ‘polluter-pays’ principle or pay-as-you-throw. Thus, this system is characterized by two disparately oriented policies. The first of these is that \“recyclable materials voluntarily

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