Gwangju City to Implement Urban Cleanliness Measures for Chuseok Until the 29th

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 22nd that it will establish and implement a ‘Comprehensive City Cleanliness Plan for the Chuseok Holiday’.

As part of the comprehensive city cleanliness plan for the Chuseok holiday, a focused cleaning period has been set until the 29th, the day before the holiday, during which a large-scale cleaning campaign will be conducted and efforts to promote proper waste separation and prevention of illegal dumping will be made.

During the holiday period, the city and district situation rooms and mobile response teams will operate, and an emergency cleaning system including special duty for sanitation workers will be in place to provide prompt cleaning administrative services.

The Chuseok large-scale cleaning campaign will take place from the 23rd to the 29th, with about 2,200 participants including public officials, private organizations, citizens, and related institutions from each autonomous district, all adhering to COVID-19 social distancing guidelines. The campaign will focus on cleaning and promoting awareness around multi-use facilities such as highway entrances, major city streets, stations, terminals, traditional market surroundings, parks, vacant lots, and cemetery access roads.

Additionally, to minimize gaps in cleaning administration during the long holiday, a total of 1,921 sanitation workers, including 646 street sanitation workers and 1,275 household sanitation workers, will work special shifts from the 30th to October 4th to clean the city streets.

Furthermore, as a large amount of household waste is expected to be brought to three waste treatment facilities including the metropolitan sanitary landfill and Public Food Waste Recycling Facilities 1 and 2 during the holiday, special duty teams will be organized at each facility to ensure smooth waste intake.

Park Jae-woo, head of the city’s Resource Circulation Division, said, “Since cleaning every corner of the streets is beyond the capacity of administrative agencies alone, we hope that citizens, including cleaning activists, will voluntarily participate and thoroughly separate waste to reduce the amount of garbage generated.”

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