SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a drive to reduce the carbon emissions of existing industrial complexes by more than 25 percent by transforming them into ‘smart green industrial complexes’ on a step by step basis and promoting business innovation activities. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport confirmed [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Institute of Environmental Research said Tuesday that it had recently developed a Solar Occultation Flux (SOF) method that uses sunlight to measure the ultrafine dust-causing materials such as nitrogen oxide that are fugitively emitted not only through chimneys but also through a variety of production processes. Fugitive [...]
DAEJEON, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Gas Technology Corp. has been selected by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to lead a project on the development of infrastructure for hydrogen-based public transportation overseas. The company will build charging stations for hydrogen fuel-cell electric buses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which are [...]
SEJONG, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — New technology has been developed to enable three types of urban waste – household waste, food waste and sewage sludge – to be simultaneously processed and converted into energy. The real life application is pending for the new technology since demonstration testing is already complete. The Ministry of Land, [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment and the Korea Environment Corp. (KECO) have started to provide real-time information on the density of ultrafine particulate matter at subway stations across the country through a website and mobile application. Thanks to a revision of the Indoor Air Quality Management Act in April 2019, [...]
BUSAN, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A new path has opened up for the production of an eco-friendly ammonia-fueled ship that does not generate any carbon dioxide emissions. The Korean Register of Shipping (KR), a South Korean ship quality assurance and risk management company, recently announced that it had approved the concept of the ‘8K [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s leading chemical company, said Tuesday that it will create a business model centered on environmental, social and governance (ESG) that will encompass the full process of producing, collecting, and recycling plastic waste. The company joined hands with local startup Innerbottle Co. to set up [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — An independent committee proposed on Thursday that legislation is needed to better handle and manage spent nuclear fuel as the issue has been a source of controversy over safety. The body under the industry ministry stressed a new law is necessary to proceed with the matter of building storage [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s emissions of fine dust from coal power plants moved down 22 percent on-year during the winter season, data showed Thursday, as the country reduced their operations in sync with its efforts to ease dependence on fossil fuel. The combined amount of fine dust generated by local coal [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Chemicals Co. announced on Tuesday that it will market a new packaging material that was developed using chemical recycling technology, by the end of this year. For the chemical industry, the waste plastic recycling is classified into two types – mechanical recycling and chemical recycling. Unlike mechanical recycling, [...]