Gwangju Dong-gu, Noticeable Progress in Cleaning Administration Innovation 추진

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Im Taek) has been achieving remarkable results by promoting various cleaning administrative innovation projects since declaring the "Year One of Garbage-Free Villages" earlier this year.

According to Dong-gu on the 17th, the district installed recycling neighborhood yards and unmanned recycling collection machines as garbage disposal hubs in each village, designated and operated resident-led resource circulation villages, and created "Fragrant Resident Participation Gardens" in habitual illegal dumping areas within the district.

Through these efforts, Dong-gu exceeded its initial goal of reducing garbage by 15% over three years from 2022 by 5% annually, achieving an 8% reduction this year alone, and also reduced the number of illegal dumping vulnerable areas from 126 to 75, showing positive effects.

In March this year, Dong-gu designated three neighborhoods?Sansu, Jisan 1, and Jiwon 1?as "Resource Circulation Villages" and began pilot operations. Resource Circulation Villages are projects where village residents take the lead in addressing garbage issues as community problems, jointly seeking solutions such as proper garbage disposal and resource recycling.

Additionally, a full survey of habitual illegal dumping areas within the resource circulation villages was conducted, and 14 sites known for habitual illegal dumping?such as one-room apartment areas, school alleys, traditional market surroundings, and near the Gwangju-Jeonnam Regional Military Manpower Administration?were transformed into resident participation gardens.

Students and residents expressed high satisfaction with the beautiful transformation of alleys through gardens created by neighbors’ participation at illegal dumping sites.

In the Dongmyeong-dong "Cafe Street" area, pretty screens with flower paintings were installed on food waste bins, bringing changes to the area.

Furthermore, to improve the environment around roadside food waste bins, business owners in the Cafe Street area were persuaded to install 20 screens at 15 food waste high-output businesses.

Besides this, three locations in Sansu-dong, where there are no proper garbage disposal sites for one-room apartments and small villas, were equipped with "Flowering Small-Scale Recycling Separation Facilities."

In particular, Dong-gu provided about 370 residents struggling due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic with public "Green Jobs" through the "Our Neighborhood Cleanliness Project," contributing to the creation of a "Garbage-Free Dong-gu."

Im Taek, Mayor of Dong-gu, said, "Various cleaning innovation projects, such as transforming habitual dumping sites that used to be garbage mountains into flower gardens, are accelerating the transition to a resource-circulating green city," adding, "We will continue to gather strength and wisdom with residents to create Dong-gu streets that people want to visit again and walk through."

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