SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — With less goods being transported, decreasing cardboard production is pulling down demand for waste paper in and out of South Korea. The Korea Paper Association reported that South Korea’s cardboard production dropped from 511,412 tons in December last year to 478,083 tons in July of this year. Cardboard is [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — There are around 15,000 seniors who collect cardboard for a living and they were found to earn far less than the minimum wage, data showed Wednesday. Rep. Kang Sun-woo of the Democratic Party referred to a report from the Korea Labor Force Institute for the Aged, which showed that [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – In the midst of an increase in the number of parcel delivery service users resulting from the prolonged COVID-19 outbreak, the collection of cardboard delivery boxes by resource collection facilities in the port city of Incheon has marked a sharp increase. The city-run Environmental Corporation of Incheon’s Songdo-based facility [...]