▲ An elderly couple in China caught on CCTV in the elevator.


The story of an elderly couple in China making a living by collecting recyclables is controversial when the apartment management office charged them to pay a hefty amount of elevator fees.



On the 4th local time, Chinese media such as the Chinese media reported that an elderly couple in their 70s living in an apartment in Nanning, Guanxi Province, used the elevator while collecting recyclable waste for 8 years, so the fee was about 28,000 yuan (5.3 million won). was reported to have been collected.



The apartment management office said that the cost of repairs damaged while using the elevator was included in the cost of the apartment management office.



The statement of charges charged to the elderly couple was published on the social media chat window where residents signed up, and the controversy intensified as the practice of collecting additional usage fees according to the frequency of elevator use has no basis under local law.



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The old couple, the center of the controversy, is a tenant who has lived on the 29th floor of this apartment for 8 years, and it is known that they used the elevator, collecting garbage from nearby areas an average of 69 times a day.



In addition, because garbage was collected and left in the hallway, neighbors have complained of inconvenience due to odor and hygiene issues.



Neighbor A said, "Because of an old couple who are obsessed with garbage collection, the whole apartment smells bad and cockroaches appear all over the house. He did not care about the protests of the



In fact, to stop the couple's garbage collection, officials from public offices, such as the local residents' committee and the Housing Construction Bureau, visited the couple's house one after another and requested 'stop collection', but it was not resolved, and it is known that the fee was collected.



An official from the apartment management office explained, "The focus of this controversy is not to collect elevator fees from elderly couples. The purpose is to stop garbage collection."



He added, "If the couple only announces their intention to stop collecting garbage, the collection of elevator usage fees will be completely unheard of."



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(Photo = Weibo capture)