<Anchor> After the
long Lunar New Year holiday, garbage is overflowing in residential areas and tourist spots.
Not only was the separation of waste a mess, highways and tourist destinations suffered from illegal dumping.
Reporter Su-jin Yoon of G1 Broadcasting reported.
<Reporter>
Garbage here, garbage there.
It's all littered with garbage.
Five days have passed and a huge mountain of garbage has formed in the corner of the alley.
Recyclables, general waste and even food waste, all mixed together in each bag, would have to be transported four or five times by truck.
Since it is a holiday, the amount of discharge from food waste to packaging is several times the usual amount, but instead of collecting it separately, they pack it up and throw it away secretly, so it is impossible to catch them one by one.
[Recycled goods collection company official: (on holidays) There are many more.
Much more.
No matter what you say, you only do it on the outside, and hide it on the inside.
(Trash?) Not only garbage, but also food.
I can't emphasize it no matter how
much
.] The
situation of tourist destinations is even worse.
At the beach moaning with garbage, there are separate people who pick up and people who throw away.
There was no end to cleaning and cleaning, so it was a war all the holidays.
Some people throw away things that are difficult to deal with at home, at highway rest areas or drowsiness shelters on their way home.
Over the past five years, over 2,300 tons of trash from highways.
It was twice as much as usual, but it cost more than 8 billion won just to process it.
Enforcement cameras, black boxes for patrol cars, and even a citizen reporting system are being operated to prevent repeated garbage dumping every year, but it is useless in front of the fallen civic consciousness.
(Video coverage: Ha Jung-woo G1 Broadcasting)