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From last month, a system of depositing a deposit on disposable cups began for some franchise cafes in Jeju and Sejong City.

However, about 40% refuse to participate.



Se-man Jang, an environmental reporter, covered what the situation was like and what the additional measures of the Ministry of Environment contained.



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[You can barcode it and bring it back with 300 won (cup deposit).]



From the 2nd of last month, some cafes in Sejong City and Jeju Island require customers to pay an additional 300 won deposit when purchasing drinks with disposable cups.



If you return the disposable cup to the cafe, you will get 300 won back.



It is estimated that about 97,900 disposable cups have been recovered over the past month, and about 2 to 3 out of 10 have been recovered.



[Ga-Ram Choi/Cup Deposit User: You can return (deposit cup) for exercise, and I think that the inconvenience is okay.]



Cafes are more passive than customers.



Among the 522 stores subject to deposit in Sejong and Jeju, about 200 stores refused to participate, accounting for nearly 40% of the total.



Cafe owners say that the problem is that the Ministry of Environment selected franchise cafes with more than 100 stores as targets for participation without any special grounds.



In a shopping district in Sejong City, where there are 11 cafes in one building, only two cafes are subject to deposit according to the Ministry of Environment regulations.



[Mr. Kim/Owner who refuses to participate in the deposit: There are so many options from the customer's point of view, so they don't bother to come to our store (returning the cup) is inconvenient, so they go to another store to purchase.] On



the first month of the deposit, the Ministry of Environment today ( 5th) We came up with additional measures, but there was no obvious solution to increase the participation rate of cafes.



In addition to franchises, the key is how much private cafes can participate, but the Ministry of Environment passed this responsibility to local governments, and took a step back, saying that it would induce participation through persuasion instead of cracking down on boycott stores.



(Video coverage: Kim Nam-seong, video editing: Choi Hye-ran)