Gwangju Seo-gu Village Community Delivers Recyclable Shopping Bags to Yangdong Market Merchants Association

Published 30 Jun.2023 10:26(KST)

Warm Atmosphere Hwajeong Village Protection Team - Secret Santa Seo-gu Headquarters Collaboration

Part of the Resource Circulation Project... Campaign to Reduce Plastic Bag Usage

The community group in Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, ‘Hwagi-aeae Hwajeong Village Climate Protection Team (Leader Kim Ho-hyun)’ recently delivered 1,004 recycled shopping bags to the Yangdong Dried Seafood Market Merchants Association together with the Love’s Secret Santa Seo-gu Headquarters (Representative Kang Seung-chul).

‘Hwagi-aeae Hwajeong Village Climate Protection Team’ is conducting a resource circulation project that exchanges the many shopping bags accumulated at homes for designated waste bags and reuses the collected bags at the market.

Gwangju Seo-gu Village Community Delivers Recyclable Shopping Bags to Yangdong Market Merchants Association

The shopping bags delivered this time were collected from Hills State Apartments and Hanyang Apartments in Hwajeong 2-dong, Seo-gu, and Naebang Jugong Apartments in Hwajeong 1-dong.

Kang Seung-chul, representative of Love’s Secret Santa Seo-gu Branch, said, “Although sorting by size and disinfecting after collection was difficult, it was rewarding to help merchants reduce the use of plastic bags.”

Kim Tae-jin, a Seo-gu council member who attended the delivery ceremony, emphasized the significance by saying, “This is a project in which any citizen can participate to respond to the climate crisis.”

Lee Myung-geun, president of the Yangdong Dried Seafood Merchants Association, also said, “Reducing the use of plastic bags and disinfecting them to keep them clean has received a very enthusiastic response from the merchants.”

The village community ‘Hwagi-aeae Hwajeong’ has been actively carrying out projects such as education, village exploration, and climate crisis response in the Hwajeong-dong area of Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City since 2021, led by village activist Ki Chun-hee.