Uiwang City Changes Design of Pay-as-You-Throw Garbage Bags

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] Uiwang City announced on the 28th that it has changed the design of its pay-as-you-throw garbage bags to promote a proper waste disposal culture.

The city has added multilingual labeling in English and Chinese to the pay-as-you-throw bags and used pictograms to indicate items that cannot be disposed of.

Additionally, the city inserted a QR code on the garbage bags to promote awareness of household waste disposal guidelines, allowing residents to access Uiwang City's website cleaning information section.

The existing pay-as-you-throw bags were labeled only in Korean, making it difficult for foreign residents and multicultural families to understand how to use them, and text-based labeling made it difficult to quickly convey information about household waste disposal guidelines.

On the city's website cleaning information section, residents can easily check not only garbage disposal methods but also the status of pay-as-you-throw bag retailers and how to request large waste disposal.

Existing pay-as-you-throw bags can continue to be used until exhausted, and redesigned pay-as-you-throw bags are expected to begin sales once the existing inventory is depleted, depending on retailers' situations.

Meanwhile, the city has been providing newborn households that register births or adoptions from this year with 1,200 liters of pay-as-you-throw bags to be used by newborns for one year free of charge.