CHANGWON, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A new production facility will be set up to upcycle oyster shells into high-value resources. South Gyeongsang provincial office said Monday that the city of Tongyeong will invest 15 billion won (US$12.6 million) to build an oyster shell recycling facility in the Beopsong General Industrial Complex by 2023. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A choking pall of fine dust plagued much of South Korea on Saturday, prompting authorities to impose emergency reduction measures for the greater Seoul area and other regions the next morning. As of 10 p.m., the density of ultrafine dust, called PM 2.5, hit the “very bad” level for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A study conducted by an environmental organization revealed that 78 percent of plastic waste generated in Korean households is used for food packaging. Greenpeace Korea released its 2021 Plastic Survey on Wednesday, based on data from 841 households (2,671 people) across South Korea. Participants made records of the manufacturer, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Armed with a variety of technologies, an increasing number of startups are making forays into the waste resource collection business. As environmental, social and governance (ESG) management is emerging as a major trend, the value of waste resource recycling is on the rise. Tech startup Superbin’s vending machine Nephron [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a drive to demonstrate wave power generation using the force of waves hitting a seawall. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries on Tuesday held the completion ceremony for a 30-kilowatt-class demo plant designed to generate electricity using the force of waves hitting a seawall in [...]
BUCHEON, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Bucheon, a Gyeonggi Province city on the southwestern outskirts of Seoul, is moving forward with a project to produce electricity from the wind generated by the odor control system at a wastewater treatment facility. The project was designed to produce electricity using the wind generated by a deodorizer, which [...]
CHANGWON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Frozen water bottles are effective enough to replace gel packs used for fresh food deliveries, which are difficult to recycle. The Korea Federation for Environmental Movement’s Tongyeong-Geoje branch tested the use of frozen water bottles to replace gel packs since early this year with support from South Gyeongsang provincial [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul received the first snowfall of the season Wednesday morning, about a month earlier than last year, the state weather agency said. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said light snow was observed at the Songwol-dong weather observation station in central Seoul at 6:10 a.m. The KMA records the first [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 94 percent of South Koreans consider the climate crisis “serious,” but only half believe the issue is connected to human rights, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey of 1,500 people commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission, 80.4 percent responded that they are interested in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s large companies have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by more than 9 percent over the past two years in an effort to cope with global environmental regulations, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. The volume of greenhouse gases emitted by 197 big businesses in Asia’s fourth-largest economy came [...]