The worst smell in the world.

Koreans recycle nearly everything. There are different pick-up services for cardboards, plastics, compost, and garbage. Generally, people produce almost no landfill-destined household garbage; it's quite something. Most of the pickup services are privately operated... people take the plastics and sell them in bulk to processsors, and so forth. I could and should devote an entry to the ultra-poor recycling pick-up people, many of whom literally pull their entire inventory by hand in metal/wood rickshaws.

Anyway, about the worst smell in thr world: the compost guy in my neighbourhood runs a three-wheel modified motorcycle with 6 large open compost buckets in tow. If you are unfortunate enough to get behind this thing, it's hard to believe. The first time I did, I nearly lost my dinner, and my korean neighbours had a good laugh sitting on the side of the alley. Let's keep in mind that the compost guy collects every form of week-old putrid food waste in a several-block radius. Also keep in mind that the typical korean diet is heavy in fish, meat and all things pickled.

And I always find myself wondering... why does that dude do that job? It has to be one of the worst jobs in the country (also, in part, because he operates only at night).