Every neighborhod has one of these. Some old man or woman (I’m not sure which in these photos) comes around with a cart to collect cardboard left at doorsteps of homes and businesses. Koreans generally recycle the hell out of everything. What surprises me, though, is that they’ll come pick this stuff up. I have to haul my own plastic, bottles, cans and glass myself to the nnumerous recycle areas. Moreover, why do they pick it up in such a labor intensive manor by relatively frail folk. Most of them are very old.

I’m guessing that there’s more of a market for cardboard at the recycling collection center and the old ones are just supplmenting their income by taking it directly. It’s always the same kind of cart, never a truck or car. It’s as if there’s some consortium of Cardboard People who all get the tools of the trade from the same place. Sort of a Sam’s Club for box folk.

I don’t make fun of these people. They work hard – for whatever the reason. I just thought it interesting and decided to share with the friends and family who read this blog.