Gwangju City, Joint Inspection of Workplace Waste Disposal Companies with District Offices

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 23rd that it will conduct a joint inspection with the city and districts targeting business site waste emitters and waste disposal companies from the 24th to the 25th.

Gwangju City conducts quarterly joint inspections of waste business sites every year to prevent illegal activities such as storing or abandoning waste at locations other than designated places at business sites, or landfilling waste without separate intermediate treatment after consignment. This joint inspection is the first quarter inspection.

This inspection will be carried out by inspection teams formed by the city and autonomous districts, focusing on business site waste emitters and disposal companies to check ▲ violations of collection and transportation standards ▲ violations of storage standards ▲ violations of treatment standards ▲ whether illegal waste is being abandoned.

The Ministry of Environment announced measures to strengthen illegal waste management in February 2019 and significantly reinforced measures to eradicate illegal waste by amending the Waste Management Act in May last year for the eradication and prompt treatment of illegal waste.

Park Jae-woo, head of the city's Resource Circulation Division, said, “Issues such as garbage mountains and illegal waste exports exposed nationwide are spreading not only domestically but also internationally. Since accumulated illegal waste causes environmental pollution and incurs significant costs for disposal, we will do our best to prevent the occurrence of illegal waste.”

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