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Paper shopping bags: how to dispose of it in Korea

Empty the bag and remove fabric or plastic cords, ribbons and plastic handles.

Paper and cartons

How to dispose of it

  1. Empty the bag and remove fabric or plastic cords, ribbons and plastic handles.
  2. Check the paper body for inseparable plastic coating or heavy contamination.
  3. Flatten a clean paper body for paper recycling and sort the removed materials separately.

Before you put it out

  • Do not mix bags with inseparable coatings or heavy food contamination into clean waste paper.
  • A sound shopping bag can be reused. When removing handles, there is no need to shred the clean paper body into small pieces.

Sources & local guidance

Prepared by Pixelone, the developer of Korea Recycle Guide. Follow your municipality and building's current instructions when they differ from this general guide.

Guide reviewed: . This is not the source dataset's update date.

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