SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The central administrative city of Sejong will launch a pilot program in January in which households can drop waste medicines into mailboxes and postal workers will safely bring them to incineration sites, officials said Monday. To launch the waste medicine collection service, the city government signed a memorandum of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency said Monday it has launched an online service that enables workers to check how much they have been exposed to carcinogenic substances. The agency developed K-CAREX (carcinogen exposure) to measure the scale of exposure to carcinogenic substances and the number of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Han River in Seoul was declared frozen by South Korea’s state weather agency for the first time this winter Sunday, as a cold snap has continued for days. The first freeze of the river was observed on the river running through the capital city more than two weeks [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The southeastern port city of Busan has asked the environment ministry to conduct a health impact survey on the use of water from the lower reaches of the Nakdong River, a region that is prone to pollution, with concerns mounting over the potential contamination of drinking water for those [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new filter material that can instantly purify phenolic microplastics and volatile organic compounds contained in the water. The Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology said Tuesday its research team developed an atypical porosity high molecule material that shows excellent performance [...]
JINJU, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team announced on Monday that it had developed new technology to produce low-cost biodiesel from wastewater using euglena, a type of algae. The new process, developed by a research team from Gyeongsang National University, injects euglena into wastewater to cultivate it at high density. If [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The sea level of South Korea rose nearly 10 centimeters over the past 33 years as a result of climate change, government data showed Monday. The country’s average coastal surface height grew 9.9 cm between 1989 and 2021, with the yearly average coming to 3.01 milometers, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The city-affiliated Seoul Facilities Corp. announced that it has set up benches made from upcycled plastic and masks along the Cheonggye Stream walkway in downtown Seoul. The corporation signed an agreement with Lotte Chemical Corp. and Lowlit Collective to create two kinds of upcycled benches. One type of bench [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte ON, an online shopping website running by the retail arm of Lotte Group, said Wednesday it will release an upcycled replica of the rubber duck that was put up for exhibition in Seokchon Lake in Seoul’s Songpa Ward in October. This project aims to recycle the rubber duck made with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A joint research team from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology and Sogang University announced on Tuesday that it had developed a biodegradable and water-resistant paper straw. The research team synthesized a biodegradable plastic, polybutylene succinate (PBS), and added a small amount of cellulose nanocrystal to create a [...]