2.7 Final disposition
For the year 2009, it was estimated that 3.5 million tons (19% of the total) of the MSW
generated in Korea was disposed of in landfills. According to the Korean government’s annual report [9],
there are 226 sanitary landfills that are owned and monitored by the municipalities and MSW made up
38% of the 9.2 million tons received into these landfills in 2009 (Table 9). The rest of the waste received
into municipal landfills is construction waste and is not of interest in this study.
Table 9: Total amount of waste received in the 226 landfills and waste disposal capacity (existing and
remaining) as of 2009