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I heard that the use of disposable products has increased in the aftermath of the Corona 19, and the road to export of recycled waste is blocked, which is why we are worried. Although the government has come up with a plan for public storage of waste, it is also said that the situation will not improve, and there will be an uprising in August.

Reporter Park Byung-il covered.

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A high-rise apartment building in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province. Recycling waste collection is in full swing at one side of the underground parking lot.

[Lee Sang-hwan/Collecter: (How about after the corona crisis?) (Plastic) seems to be 1.7 times higher. (What's more after the corona?) Now there's a lot of vinyl.] Only

2,000 plastic and vinyl waste from a week's 2,000 households in large bags in 50 bags.

[Lee Dae-hee / Collector: Great. All of them are eaten by courier, and there are so many.]

How many plastic containers are used in delivery food? I tried the food myself.

During the week, I recorded each and every recycled waste from my house, and vinyl or plastic was overwhelming.

Vinyl and plastic waste from a single apartment in Giza for a week increased 1.5 times more than before Corona.

Plastic waste is sorted and crushed and used as recycled raw materials.

However, demand for renewable raw materials plummeted as the export route to Corona 19 was blocked and the price of new plastics fell due to low oil prices.

[CEO Nam-Gyu Jung/Selector: The labor cost and the cost of collecting and transporting the product are not right at the moment because the price is too low. I am afraid that a lot of plastic is generated.] As the

deficit is accumulated and the number of screening personnel is reduced, the cheap plastics such as disposable cups and bento boxes cost 100,000 won per ton and are thrown into the incinerator.

[CEO Nam-Gyu Jung/Selector: It's like buying money for money and throwing it away. If you pass this state in August, you will not be refused collection, but will be abandoned. .] It

is said that the wastes accumulated in each sorting site will be replayed in 2018 due to the suspension of China's import of waste vinyl.

[Hong Soo-Yeol / Director of Resource Recycling Economy Research Institute: In 2018, the waste vinyl disaster was just a rehearsal and a waste (collection) rehabilitation.] The

Ministry of Environment issued emergency measures last month.

[Mr. Cho, Myeong-rae/Environment Minister: We are pre-purposing recycled waste that (recycling) businesses have now.] The

government will buy and store about 10,000 tons of plastic waste, which is only a temporary measure.

[CEO Nam-Gyu Jeong/Selector: 10,000 tons is less than a month. With less than a month's countermeasures, the government has done all it can to do, and this makes no sense.]

Experts say that if this situation continues, the waste collection crisis is inevitable. It is said that it is urgent to prepare additional measures.

(Video coverage: Wonsik Lee)