Pyeongtaek City Recycling Promotion Hall, Action for Low-Car
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Pyeongtaek City Recycling Promotion Hall, Action for Low-Carbon Green Growth…
(Published December 27, 2011)
‘Changing awareness about recycling’ for low-carbon green growth
Pyeongtaek City Recycling Promotion Hall
The Pyeongtaek City Recycling Promotion Hall, located in Gunmun-dong of Pyeongtaek City, is an educational space provided in accordance with the government’s policy on low-carbon green growth where visitors can see, listen, and learn all about the importance of resource recycling.
The Recycling Promotion Hall was established by Pyeongtaek City and is being managed by the Beautiful and Green Pyeongtaek 21 Practice Committee (Agenda 21). The four-story hall covers an area of 387 square meter and consists of a central signboard installation, a video room, a new and renewable energy board, an experience study room, a recycled product exhibition post, a home waste exhibition room, a kitchen food waste exhibition room, and a migratory bird observatory.
Also, the recycling product selection space enables visitors to observe and experience the selection process for paper, glass bottles, metals, plastic, and clothing.
Thanks to these interesting facilities, the Recycling Promotion Hall has been flooded with group reservations from kindergartens, women’s societies, and environmental organizations since its opening on October 21st.
“Creating a cleaner environment for the future”
A junk art sculpture of a tall man greets visitors at the ‘central signboard installation’ in the entrance to the recycling promotion hall.
This sculpture, made from diverse discarded waste materials, provides visitors with an opportunity to ponder an age of materialism and the importance of resource preservation.
‘Junk art’ refers to artwork created from waste resources and broken parts that are no longer useful in our daily lives.
The hall exhibits various works by Oh Dae-ho, a leader of Korean junk art.
Children enjoy trying to spot discarded objects hidden within the junk-art works including TVs, irons, cleaners, phones, pots, and kettles.
Walking along the hallway, visitors arrive in the ‘experience study room.’
The room is open to anyone by reservation.
Visitors can experience making pinwheels of diverse shapes and colors using waste plastic bottles.
Pinwheels made by the small hands of children are a window on a cleaner future environment.
After passing the ‘new renewable energy board,’ which shows the utilization status of sustainable renewable energy sources such as terrestrial and solar heat, one encounters a video room with around 70 seats. Seated comfortably, visitors can listen to explanations from personnel and watch a video to learn about the waste recycling status of various nations including Germany, Switzerland, Japan, China, and Russia.
Furthermore, visitors can learn about the processing procedures for each product category and the process of recycling wastes separately collected from households.
Various experience facilities promote the importance of environmental preservation
In the ‘How many years before decomposition?’ corner, visitors can shoot at various targets including milk packs, snack wraps, disposable diapers, plastic articles and so on with an electronic gun. When a visitor scores a hit, the machine explains how long it takes for that particular item to decompose.
This place is another extremely popular corner among visitors.
Other unique attractions include the Recycled Product Exhibition Room, which shows visitors how recycled waste materials are used as the main elements to create new products, and the Home Waste Exhibition Room, which shows various recycled household wastes.
Food waste accounts for 23% of all waste. Listening to the explanation about food waste processing procedures, visitors are usually shocked at the enormous cost and scale of the process.
The Kitchen Food Waste Exhibition Room shows how household cooperation is desperately needed to create feed and compost out of food waste.
The last corner of the hall features the migratory bird observatory, where visitors can observe birds in the beautiful habitat of Ansan Stream. Viewing the migratory birds through a telescope, visitors are sure to realize that everyone needs to be aware of the importance of environmental preservation and act accordingly in order to promote balanced development between the environment and people.
Importance of understanding and carrying out the separate disposal of home wastes
Director Park Hwan-wooof the Beautiful and Green Pyeongtaek 21 Practice Committee (Agenda 21), which manages the hall, said, “In addition to planning diverse programs for families, we’ll interface with environment-related basic facilities and organizations to create an even more active Pyeongtaek City Recycling Promotion Hall.”
He continued, “While half of the waste to be buried is recyclable, 30% of it is unrecyclable,” stressing, “We desperately need people to properly understand and carry out the right methods for the separation and disposal of home waste.”
– Location: 168 Gunmun-dong, Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province
– Phone: +82-31-651-7351
– Homepage:http://recycle.lapt.or.kr
Source: WoORI (Gyeonggi Women¡?s Information Webzine) (Article and photo byChu Seung-hui)
