Bucheon City Start Volume-rate Food Garbage Collection From July
Bucheon City started to hold civil information sessions for town residents before the city is supposed to launch a new volume-rate garbage collection system for food waste from this July 1st, 2013. The first civil information session was held at Sang-2-dong Resident Community Center on last March 14, 2013. Sang-2-dong was chosen as the pilot town for this new garbage collection system, . The session was led by instructors who have been trained specialized in recycling by the city and Bucheon Sustainable Development Committee. The recycling instructors will lead the sessions for thirty six towns.
Objectives for this session was to share information about new food garbage collection system and to hear opinions from residents. At the session, the instructors explained objective of volume-rate garbage collection, methods for food garbage bags and RFID tags, and reduction methods for food garbage.
Bucheon City has selected plastic bag method for this new volume-rate food garbage collection system. Citizens have to buy plastic bags for food garbage collection at authorized stores in Bucheon City. Citizens who live in single houses, apartments and small restaurants(its size is smaller than 200 square meters) can fill the standard plastic bag with food garbage, and dump it into collection bins.
Head of Cleaning Department in Bucheon City Hall, Hanmoon Lee, said "The city and my department will do the best to launch this new volume-rate food garbage collection system successfully, through promoting new system, listening opinions from residents and monitoring launching processes." at last civil information session.
For more information about new food garbage collection system, contact and ask Team of Food Garbage and Resources via a phone +82-32-625-3201 or twitter @cleanbc.
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