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Shopping Malls Plan to Install Handles on Delivery Boxes for Employee Safety

SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top retailers announced plans to install handles on private-label brand (PB) boxes for easier delivery by staff. Emart, Lotte Mart and HomePlus submitted a new proposal on October 20 to the Ministry of Employment and Labor via the Korea Chainstores Association (KOCA). The labor unions of each [...]

New Technology Turns Delivery Boxes into Biodiesel

SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A newly developed technology is capable of producing biodiesel, an eco-friendly fuel for automobiles, using paper waste generated by parcel deliveries. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced Tuesday that they had developed a microorganism that can produce base materials for biodiesel from lignocellulosic biomass [...]