Selected as an Excellent Environmental Institution for Three Consecutive Years
Realizing a Sustainable City Through Fair Administration
Paju City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 25th that it received the Excellence Award in the institution category at the 9th Gyeonggi-do Environmental Awards ceremony, which was held on the 21st at the Goyang Hangang Park Lawn Plaza. With this achievement, Paju City has been recognized as an excellent environmental institution for three consecutive years, establishing itself as a leading local government in sustainable environmental policy.
Paju City received the Excellence Award in the institution category at the 9th Gyeonggi-do Environmental Awards ceremony held on the 21st at the Goyang Hangang Park Lawn Plaza. Provided by Paju City
This event, co-hosted by Gyeonggi Province and Goyang City and organized by the Gyeonggi Environmental Energy Agency, was designed to discover and promote exemplary environmental policy cases among local governments in the province. The Environmental Awards were determined through a comprehensive evaluation, combining a first-stage quantitative assessment and a second-stage qualitative review.
In the first-stage evaluation, Paju City achieved outstanding results in areas such as waste reduction, recycling rates, and carbon neutrality policies. In the second-stage evaluation, the city received high marks for fairness and effectiveness through its case of improving the selection system for municipal solid waste collection and transportation service providers.
The city expanded opportunities for company participation and established a fair competitive system by implementing measures such as relaxing eligibility requirements, introducing pre-bid qualification screening, adopting a competitive bidding system, establishing anti-collusion measures, and introducing a negotiated contract method. As a result, the city expects to save approximately 7 billion won in budget over two years.
Park Juntae, Director of Environmental Affairs for Paju City, stated, "This award is the result of our efforts to enhance fairness and accountability in administration, particularly in the field of municipal solid waste management, which is closely related to citizens' daily lives." He added, "We will continue to realize a sustainable green city in Paju through efficient and transparent environmental policies."
Paju City is strengthening policies across all areas of carbon neutrality, resource circulation, and environmental safety, including: confirming carbon neutrality reduction targets and declaring its vision; operating an integrated environmental center (tentative name) as a hub for environmental education and carbon neutrality practices; preventing water quality accidents and starting construction of buffer storage facilities at the Paju LCD industrial complex; modernizing the Environmental Circulation Center and establishing a new municipal solid waste incineration plant to upgrade resource circulation infrastructure; and promoting the creation of a mini hydrogen city and the reuse of multi-use containers to achieve both carbon neutrality and a circular economy. In this way, the city is progressing toward becoming a sustainable environmental city.
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