Yongin City to Build Additional 500-Ton Incineration Facility

Geumeo-ri, Pogok-eup, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Yongin Environmental Center (left) and Suji Environmental Center, Pungdeokcheon-dong, Suji-gu (right)

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province is set to build an additional incineration facility with a capacity of 500 tons to expand its insufficient waste treatment infrastructure.

Yongin operates the Yongin Environmental Center in Geumeo-ri, Pogok-eup, Cheoin-gu (maximum daily incineration capacity of 300 tons) and the Suji Environmental Center in Pungdeokcheon-dong, Suji-gu (maximum daily incineration capacity of 70 tons), but due to insufficient processing capacity, waste is currently outsourced for treatment.

Accordingly, direct landfill of waste will be banned starting in 2026, making the expansion of incineration facilities urgent.

To address this issue, Yongin City announced on the 5th that it will proceed with a feasibility study for candidate sites to build a 500-ton incineration facility.

Earlier, since May, Yongin City formed a site selection committee by publicly recruiting resident representatives and experts.

The site selection committee recently established a feasibility study plan for the installation of the waste treatment facility and selected a specialized institution for site selection. Subsequently, candidate sites meeting the criteria for waste treatment facility location will be surveyed throughout the city.

Yongin City will disclose the study plan, process, and results on its website and gather opinions from local residents to decide on the site by the first half of next year.

When announcing the site selection plan in May, Yongin City also revealed a resident support plan worth approximately 50 billion KRW for the incineration facility installation area.

Mayor Lee Sang-il of Yongin said, "The construction of an incineration facility is necessary for the stable treatment of Yongin City's household waste," adding, "We will promote this project transparently with resident coexistence measures and aim to make it a landmark facility that local residents can be proud of."

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