Advance Notice of Household Waste Collection and Garbage Disposal Days from 8th to 10th
Disposal Allowed in 6 Districts During Holiday Period, Full Seoul Area Disposal Allowed from 14th
[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 5th that it will implement a comprehensive cleaning plan to ensure citizens can spend the Seollal holiday in a pleasant environment. To prevent inconvenience to citizens during the holiday, the city plans to designate and operate waste collection and disposal days by district before, during, and after Seollal.
From the 8th to the 10th, before the holiday, citizens can dispose of household waste as usual. During this period, Seoul will provide advance notice of the waste disposal days and methods by district during the Seollal holiday through non-face-to-face channels such as district websites, local media, and SNS.
If citizens dispose of household waste before the holiday, all collected waste will be transported to waste treatment facilities such as the Sudokwon Landfill Site and resource recovery facilities for processing.
During the holiday, the waste disposal days vary by district due to the operating days of Seoul’s resource recovery facilities and the Sudokwon Landfill Site, as well as the days off for district sanitation workers, so caution is required. For cleaning-related complaints during the holiday, citizens can contact the respective district’s ‘Cleaning Situation Room’ or call 120 (Dasan Call Center).
On the first day of the holiday, the 11th, only Seongdong and Gangnam districts can dispose of waste; on the 12th, only Jongno and Gangdong; on the 13th, only Yeongdeungpo and Songpa districts. On the last day of the holiday, the 14th, waste disposal is allowed throughout Seoul.
During the Seollal holiday, Seoul and the districts will operate a total of 26 cleaning situation rooms and deploy 542 personnel in cleaning patrol teams to promptly handle cleaning complaints and other citizen inconveniences.
The ‘Cleaning Patrol Teams’ will focus daily on managing vulnerable areas to prevent citizen inconvenience caused by waste accumulation in major downtown areas and along streets.
Additionally, during the holiday, 11,257 district sanitation workers will work special shifts to clean major streets, handle cleaning complaints, and collect household waste generated during the holiday.
After the Seollal holiday, each district will mobilize all cleaning personnel and equipment to collectively collect and process the accumulated waste from the holiday period.
Im Mi-kyung, Director of the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Living Environment Division, stated, “Seoul will make every effort to implement cleaning measures such as waste collection to ensure citizens do not experience inconvenience during the Seollal holiday,” and urged, “We ask all citizens to reduce food waste and comply with the waste disposal dates designated by each district to help maintain a pleasant holiday environment.”
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