Pyeongtaek City Selected as Excellent Agency for Free Home Appliance Collection Service

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park Chan-hyuk] Pyeongtaek City received an award of excellence at the ‘2024 Competition for Excellent Local Governments in Free Home Appliance Collection Service’ hosted by the Ministry of Environment and organized by e-Circulation Governance.

Pyeongtaek City was the only municipality in Gyeonggi Province to win a silver award in the large home appliance category.

The competition was held as the volume of discarded home appliances collected through the public collection system continues to increase, with the goal of maintaining and improving service quality.

The city participated in the large home appliance category and was selected as an exemplary local government after receiving high evaluations in areas including management of shared collection facilities, promotional achievements in free home appliance collection service, and performance in home visits to collect large discarded appliances.

A Pyeongtaek City official stated, “We conducted continuous promotional activities to enable citizens to conveniently dispose of discarded home appliances,” and added, “We will make efforts to improve the public collection volume of discarded home appliances and resource recycling efficiency.”