Significant Expansion of Key Sites Installing and Operating Waste Collection Bins for the Three Major Religions and General Waste

The Gwangju Volunteer Center (Chairman Bang Se-hwan) significantly expanded the installation and operation of general pack (milk pack) collection bins, led by the Christian Korea Holiness Church Gwangju Church, the Gwangju Buddhist Temple Association Sudosa, and the Catholic Gwangju Cathedral on the 13th. Previously, the center held a ‘Hopeful Resource Circulation Green Agreement Ceremony’ with the Gwangju Christian Federation (President Lee Chung-beom), the Gwangju Buddhist Temple Association (President Cheong-ho), and the Catholic Suwon Diocese Gwangju District (District Chief Ryu Deok-hyun).

The Gwangju Volunteer Center held an event on the 13th to install general pack (milk pack) collection bins in collaboration with the Gwangju Church of the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church, the Sudo Temple of the Gwangju Buddhist Temple Association, and the Gwangju Catholic Church. Provided by Gwangju City, Gyeonggi Province.

The Paper Pack Special Task Force project is a campaign that installs and operates ‘general pack collection bins’ at facilities such as religious institutions, social welfare centers, and cafes within the district to spread citizens’ awareness of proper waste separation and respond to environmental volunteer activities from a carbon-neutral perspective in a non-face-to-face manner.

Paper packs are a high-quality resource that can be 100% recycled into toilet paper, and recycling 1 ton has the resource circulation value equivalent to planting 20 thirty-year-old trees. However, due to inadequate collection systems, they are discarded as waste paper, resulting in a recycling rate of only 15%.

The three major religions actively participated to enhance citizens’ accessibility to participation by cooperating with the religious community to promote proper waste separation in response to local environmental issues and to expand resource circulation recycling rates.

Additionally, the Gwangju Volunteer Center is continuously recruiting institutions and organizations to install general pack collection bins in the local community and to manage and operate the collected general packs to realize a resource-circulating society.

For more information, please visit the Gwangju Volunteer Center website or contact them by phone.

Meanwhile, citizens participating in the campaign who visit the ‘general pack collection bin’ locations, separate and dispose of five or more general packs, and verify their activity through the attached QR code are granted 30 minutes of volunteer time.

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