President Moon Jae-in is calling for active measures to reduce the amount of plastic waste and ways to improve waste collection services.<br /> During a Cabinet meeting this morning, the president referred to the recent waste management crisis in apartment complexes of Seoul and Gyeonggi-do Province as a number of private recycling companies had refused to retrieve plastic and foam waste.<br />This was due to China's decision to ban waste imports in January, which caused the value of the resources to plunge.<br />He said the government could have predicted the drop in demand for plastic waste in advance as Beijing had announced its decision last July.<br />Meanwhile, President Moon met with his Slovakian counterpart Andrej Kiska for a bilateral summit shortly after the Cabinet meeting. <br />
