Hwaseong City Holds Completion Ceremony for 'Foreign Resident Resource Recycling Activist Training Program'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Lee Su-won] Hwaseong City held a completion ceremony for the 'Hwaseong City Foreign Resident Resource Recycling Activist Training Program' on the 21st at the conference room of Hwaseong General Sports Town.

The training program was designed to help foreign residents settle in early by educating and promoting proper waste sorting methods to residents of the same nationality.

The education was conducted over three sessions, utilizing photos and videos of waste disposal cases as primary teaching materials to enhance learners' interest and understanding.

Key educational content included △proper waste sorting and disposal methods △waste treatment methods in Hwaseong City △pricing standards and precautions for volume-based disposal bags by specification.

The foreign resident resource recycling activists who completed the training on this day are 12 interpretation and translation volunteers at the Hwaseong City Foreign Residents Welfare Center, representing a total of seven countries including Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and Sri Lanka.

As their first volunteer activity, they plan to translate large-item waste fee standards by category into their native languages and promote them within their respective communities.

Meanwhile, the city plans to actively support the foreign resident resource recycling activists' volunteer activities as a starting point, with plans to help them grow into resource recycling citizen instructors next year.

Shim Yeon-bo, Director of the Resource Recycling Division, stated, "Foreign residents are establishing themselves as members of our society in various ways," and added, "If foreign resident activists guide waste sorting methods in diverse languages—a practice that even Korean citizens find difficult—it will be of great help in raising awareness and understanding among foreign residents."