SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The local government is stepping up to recycle plastic bottles into clothes and bags. The Cheonan city office in South Chungcheong Province announced Tuesday that it has signed a contract with the Ministry of Environment, the Korea Packaging Recycling Cooperative (KPRC), and a number of private companies to set [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Korea Polar Research Institute are pushing for quarantine measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus to research institutions in the polar regions. The Korea Antarctic Research Program and the Jang Bogo Antarctic Research Station in Antarctica have controlled all outsiders’ [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — After the parliamentary elections on April 15, election promotional banners that will be discarded will be recycled into shopping bags and garbage bags. Earlier this month, the Ministry of Environment had distributed guidelines containing such information to local governments across the country to push for recycling measures. The guidelines included [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Text message notifications of parcel delivery will include information on how to sort and throw away waste materials such as paper boxes. As a growing number of customers are shopping online following the coronavirus outbreak, public and private authorities have teamed up to instruct customers on how to properly [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A power plant site, once regarded as a place to avoid, has been renovated into a popular destination for both tourists and local residents to rest and enjoy sightseeing. The Korea Southern Power Co. (KOSPO), a state-run power firm, announced Tuesday that it had completed the first phase of [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has introduced new eco-friendly packaging for its lifestyle TVs such as The Frame, The Serif, and The Sero. Samsung’s new ‘eco-packaging’ made from eco-friendly corrugated cardboard will allow customers easier recycling as well as up-cycling of the cardboard boxes for creative reuse, according to the company [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s ultrafine dust particles decreased 20 percent this winter, thanks to the new seasonal management system and decreased industrial activities due to the new coronavirus outbreak, the municipal government said Wednesday. According to the Seoul government, the capital’s density of ultrafine dust particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Dokdo, South Korea’s easternmost islets, is like a treasure trove of endangered animals, such as hawks and seals, the government agency said Tuesday. The National Institute of Biological Resources, which operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment, conducted a five-year project to build a database for 2046 endangered [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean petrochemical firm will launch a project to improve awareness of resource circulation and establish a new domestic plastic recycling economy. Lotte Chemical Corp. held a signing ceremony for “Project Loop” with seven companies in Seoul Monday to establish a plastic recycling economy by improving the culture [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A disused public bus garage will be transformed into a “compact city” where large urban forests, public houses and social overhead capital (SOC) are interwoven. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Housing and Communities Corp. on Monday unveiled a winning international design project to reform Jangji Public Bus [...]