Yongin City Intensifies Management of 73 Illegal Dumping Hotspots

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun Reporter] Yongin City announced on the 19th that it has designated 73 locations prone to illegal garbage dumping for intensive management efforts to eradicate unauthorized waste disposal in the city.

This move comes as the number of illegal waste dumping incidents in the city surged sharply from 316 cases in 2018 to 760 cases in 2020.

In response, the city last year designated 109 habitual illegal dumping sites and conducted special inspections, successfully resolving illegal dumping at 84 of those locations.

This year, the city plans to implement special management for 25 locations that did not show improvement last year, along with 48 newly designated sites.

To this end, the city will deploy 34 illegal dumping surveillance monitors and strengthen fines and on-site surveillance using mobile CCTV. Additionally, the city will operate mobile enforcement teams through SNS such as Facebook to promptly handle remaining waste.

Furthermore, starting this month, the city will establish a mobile enforcement team comprised of 43 members including civil servants and waste management company officials to intensify crackdowns on six particularly severe illegal dumping problem areas.

On the 12th, the city conducted a major cleanup of one habitual illegal dumping site located at Cheonri 986-10, Idong-eup, Cheoiin-gu, and civil servants, local residents, and waste management company officials gathered to discuss countermeasures.

For this area, the city will post banners with anti-illegal dumping messages and install mobile cameras to conduct active enforcement.

A city official stated, "We will actively promote awareness and guidance activities to resolve residents' inconvenience caused by illegal garbage dumping."