Osan City Opens 2024 Sharing Marketplace Free of Single-Use Items

[Suwon Ilbo=Lee Su-won Reporter] The '2024 Sharing Marketplace' opened successfully on the 20th along the tree-lined street behind Osan City Hall parking lot and between Daedong Apartments.

The sharing marketplace was hosted by Osan City and organized by the Osan City Sustainable Development Council (Standing Director Nam Dae-sung), with approximately 300 participants including operating committee members and citizens in attendance.

Osan City conducted a campaign to collect waste resources (paper packs and used batteries) and promoted the reduction of single-use items, while the Osan City Sustainable Development Council operated resource recycling-related programs including promoting carbon-neutral practice point systems and running natural material craft experience booths, allowing citizens time to reflect on the environment and resource circulation.

Meanwhile, the sharing marketplace is a venue where citizens can exchange and sell reusable items that are no longer used in households. To promote awareness of recycling among citizens and expand alternative consumption culture, it is held monthly from April to November, excluding August when extreme heat occurs.

Nam Dae-sung, Standing Director of the Osan City Sustainable Development Council, said, "I hope that citizens will continue to learn the value of resource circulation through small practices of sharing at the sharing marketplace."

Osan Mayor Lee Kwon-jae said, "In line with the transition to a carbon-neutral society, Osan City will advance various policies such as reducing single-use items to create a leading model for carbon neutrality."