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The banners hung during the last presidential election are piled up like a pile.

It is used briefly and most of it is incinerated, but when it is burned, pollutants are released.

We need to think about whether we should put up banners every election season the same as 70 years ago or today.



Reporter Yoo Deok-gi pointed it out.



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Election banners are piled up in a temporary storage warehouse.



These are the items collected by the local government after receiving civil complaints, and each political party is responsible for installation as well as demolition and disposal.



[Director Kim Ki-soo / Architecture Division, Gangbuk-gu Office, Seoul: (request for demolition) We are preparing (demolition) by ourselves as a lot of complaints are coming in to the ward office.]



Approximately 100,000 banners are allowed nationwide under the Election Act.



It was designed so that each candidate of each political party could hang two per administrative building, but it is estimated that the actual number of banners produced is more than this.



[Autonomous district banner manager: After (hanging) the banner encouraging early voting, the banner encouraging the main voting was posted again.] The



problem is that election banners are not suitable for the era of 'carbon neutrality'.



Although active local governments are recycling them into shopping carts, etc., the proportion is only around 20% and most of them are incinerated, and 6.28kg of carbon dioxide is emitted per banner.



Unlike the days when there were no proper public relations means to inform political parties and candidates, effective publicity is now possible through various media such as broadcasting and telecommunication. 



[Su-yeol Hong/Director of Resource Circulation Economy Research Institute: (Actually) It is disposable garbage that is only used and thrown away during elections.

Loudness is now rather cluttering our view...

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With the local elections just around the corner, the voices that the practice of using election banners, which have been around for over 70 years, should be changed to fit the code of the eco-friendly and digital age are gaining persuasive power. 



(Video coverage: Oh Young-chun, Lee Chan-soo, video editing: Park Ki-duk, CG: Kim Jong-un)