How to dispose of it
- Empty the bag and remove fabric or plastic cords, ribbons and plastic handles.
- Check the paper body for inseparable plastic coating or heavy contamination.
- 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.