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There are various problems with corona, but I am also concerned about recycling waste such as PET bottles and Styrofoam. I have to buy it from a foreign country, but the export road is blocked and it is accumulating in the factory yard. It is said that the mask can be stopped soon.

First, reporter Park Chan-bum, and we'll talk more in the studio.

<Reporter>

This is a collection and selection facility in Gyeonggi-do where waste plastics generated by 1.4 million households in the metropolitan area gather.

Although 120 tons of waste plastic has been repeatedly sent in and out every day, more than 10 times the usual amount is piled up like a mountain.


Currently, 90% of warehouse storage space is full. If this condition persists over the next week, you will not be able to receive recycled items such as waste plastic from your apartment.

This backlog occurred as recycling processors buying waste plastics drastically reduced their volume.

This is because the export market has been severely blocked as the trading market has frozen to Corona 19.

[Kim Seo-won / Director of Recycling Recovery / Selection Company: (Corona 19 occurs) With the quantity increased by 15%, going out now is more than 50% less than going out now… .]

95% of recycled raw materials processed from waste plastics are exported, and the US and Europe, the main importers, have stopped trading.

The same goes for old clothes.

Recycling collectors collect old clothes from apartments such as apartments, but the export path to Corona 19 is blocked and they are only piled up in storage warehouses.

When recycled waste is accumulated in the collection and sorting area and reaches saturation, there is no place for recycling waste from the home right away.

[Recycling collection / carrier representative: If recycling is not possible, there is a lot of

potential for confusion in the part of waste, that is, waste.] Field officials say that in this state, it is inevitable to avoid great confusion in the next week. .

Although the Ministry of Environment plans to purchase waste plastics instead and store them in other places as soon as possible, the Ministry of Environment plans to go ahead and store them in a different place, but there is a lack of preparation in advance, and there is concern that it is not enough to extinguish overflowing recycled waste.

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Let's talk a little bit more with Park Chan-beom. Reporter Park, it's getting hot, but if you say you're not kicking recycled garbage, you'll have a lot of creeps now. Is it really possible that this will be interrupted by interviewing?

<Reporter>

Yes, if you listen to the opinions of the field companies, in conclusion, the collection may take place within one to two weeks as soon as possible.

There is now a space issue, a money issue, and the space issue is simple.

Even when recycling collectors bring their items, there is no more physical space to store them, which can lead to a collection crisis.

The money problem is, recycling collectors sign an annual collection contract against the apartment.

As we bring in recycled products that cost money, we pay a set amount per household, and we bring them to the apartments and bring them back. Corona 19 unexpectedly blocked exports, reducing domestic demand.

So, the price of old clothes, waste plastic, and phage has dropped from at least 30% to more than 50%.

If so, the collectors will bring in the recycled items at the collection contract price set last year, which is higher than the current market price.

Doing so can lead to bankruptcy in line with deficits growing and operational difficulties.

The Ministry of Environment needs to think about both the money and space issues to solve this problem.

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story of <anchor> companies, then, the more you bring, the less it will be. However, what kind of measures did the government come up with?

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First, the Ministry of Environment announced that it would be 'public stockpile'.

The intention is that the government will go ahead and pierce the blood as soon as possible, but the government will take over and buy the processed products made by the recycling processor and move them to a temporary storage place, and the processors can also take the waste plastics and turn the factory into operation, Then, as the waste plastics in the storage area are removed, the recycling companies can primarily move the collected items back to the storage area.

However, the Ministry of Environment announced today that it will hold public stockpile on April 20, about 10 days ago, but it has not been implemented.

It is said that there is still some fine tuning, but I think we should hurry up.

And some experts think public storage is not a fundamental solution.

There is also an opinion that the government is going to buy it and put it into a temporary storage place, and it is thought that it is a reversal type.

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Anyway, I'm talking about it for a week, so I need to take measures sooner or later. To prevent it.

(Video coverage Han Il-sang, Park Dae-young, video editing: Park player)