Sacheon Mayor Park Dongsik Starts New On-Site Administration by Cleaning with Sanitation Workers

Breakfast Meeting with Sanitation Workers... Listening to Their Difficulties and Challenges

Park Dong-sik, mayor of Sacheon City, Gyeongnam, is collecting volume-based waste bags.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Park Dong-sik, mayor of Sacheon City, Gyeongnam, made a fresh start with on-site administration by cleaning trash together with local sanitation workers the day after the second year of the 8th term of the elected government began.

On the morning of the 3rd, Mayor Park took the first step toward building the 2023 "New Beginning, Happy City Sacheon" by collecting volume-based waste bags in the downtown area of Sacheon City starting at 7 a.m.

This on-site administration was arranged to understand the difficulties of sanitation workers and to encourage their hard work.

It also carried a message promoting the habitual practice of waste separation, recycling, and the use of standardized bags.

That day, Mayor Park collected volume-based waste bags for household garbage along a 1 km section from Jungang Market to Yonggung Fish Market, riding with the garbage collection vehicle for about an hour.

He also conducted street cleaning by picking up various trash such as plastic bags and cardboard boxes discarded throughout the city with about 20 members of the street cleaning team.

Samcheonpo Jungang Market and Samcheonpo Yonggung Fish Market are among the areas where the most household waste is generated and are also livelihood sites where residents work hard.

In particular, before collecting household waste that day, Mayor Park held a breakfast meeting with sanitation workers at a local restaurant to listen to their difficulties and challenges.

The sanitation workers suggested, "Although the treatment of sanitation workers has improved a lot so far, we ask for continuous improvement and attention in the future."

Mayor Park promised, "By experiencing the working environment of sanitation workers, I came to understand the conditions of on-site work," and "I will continue to pay attention and monitor the situation."

He added, "I participated in this on-site experience to create an opportunity to think about the value of environmental protection," and said, "At the starting point of the second year of the 8th term of the elected government, let us renew our original intention and unite our efforts to build a new beginning and a happy city Sacheon."

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