Seodaemun-gu Promotes Habitual Recycling Separation in Low-Rise Residential Areas

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Members of the Cheonyeon Chung-hyeon Village Cooperative are conducting a recycling separation campaign around Cheonyeon-dong, Dongnipmun-ro 12-gil. The Cheonyeon Chung-hyeon Village Cooperative is composed of residents who met through the alley walking division of the 'Cheonyeon Chung-hyeon Urban Regeneration Residents' Council'.

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Seodaemun-gu (Mayor Moon Seok-jin) is conducting a recycling separation campaign called ‘#Sallim’ as part of the village management project within the ‘Cheonyeonchunghyeon Urban Regeneration New Deal’ in the area around Dongnimmun-ro 12-gil, Cheonyeon-dong.

Dongnimmun-ro 12-gil, a low-rise residential area, is undergoing alley environment improvement construction as part of the urban regeneration project.

Residents collect more than 10 cleaned transparent PET bottles, milk cartons, and cans at a designated location, an empty house site (Cheonyeon-dong 116), and exchange them for tissue paper and volume-based waste bags. Flowerpots are also given to residents of Dongnimmun-ro 12-gil.

This campaign is planned and organized by the Cheonyeonchunghyeon Village Cooperative, Cheonyeon-dong Residents’ Autonomous Committee, and Cheonyeonchunghyeon Urban Regeneration Support Center to promote proper recycling separation habits.

At the first event held on the afternoon of the 10th of this month, about 40 residents of various ages, from children and adolescents to elderly living alone, participated. The second campaign will be held on the 31st of this month. Subsequently, the third and fourth campaigns will be held biweekly in November.

Next year, the ‘#Sallim’ campaign is expected to continue as a resident-participatory village management project to create clean alleys, which is a collaborative agenda of Seodaemun-gu.

Along with this, the district is also exploring efficient ways to process food waste generated in this area and recently visited five case sites for this purpose.

Moon Seok-jin, Mayor of Seodaemun-gu, stated, “The village management project is the core of the Cheonyeonchunghyeon urban regeneration project and a representative example of collaborative governance involving resident groups, intermediary support organizations, administration, and experts. We hope that the #Sallim campaign will spread consensus on alley environment improvement and resource circulation.”

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