SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea said Wednesday it had released a series of flower pots made from upcycled coffee grounds. Upcycling refers to a process that goes beyond simple recycling of waste to add eco-friendly design and utility to create a whole new product. A single flower pot is made from [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea said Wednesday it will recycle 100 percent of its coffee grounds by 2027. Coffee grounds were considered a non-recyclable material until they were reclassified as a recirculation resource in March, allowing them to be used for a variety of purposes. The U.S. coffee giant plans to conduct [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee shops will now be able to recycle coffee grounds through more lenient requirements and procedures. The Ministry of Environment announced that it will designate coffee grounds as a ‘circulation resource’ starting on Tuesday. With the increasing amount of coffee consumption in South Korea, the volume of coffee grounds [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee grounds are being reused to get rid of the stench at livestock farms. The Ministry of Environment signed an agreement with the city of Incheon, North Gyeongsang Province, the Korea Productivity Center, the Korea Green Foundation and Hyundai Steel Co. on Wednesday for the recycling of coffee grounds. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will collect coffee grounds from downtown cafes for recycling. The city plans to offer certified marks and other incentives to encourage coffee shops to throw away coffee grounds separately, collect them through district offices and send them to a recycling firm. The [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store chain CU said Thursday that it will introduce wooden decks made with used coffee grounds at several outlets. Coffee grounds are leftovers made during the coffee brewing process, and are typically discarded as waste in South Korea. CU plans to first set up coffee ground decks at [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed new technology to produce eco-friendly renewable energy from leftover coffee grounds. The Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials reported on Wednesday that chief researcher Choi Yeon-seok has developed what is being called a Tilted-Slide Fast Pyrolyzer. This technique employs the method of rapidly heating [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks coffee grounds are composted and sprayed on farmland, and agricultural products grown as food for the compost will be reborn as Starbucks products. Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. announced on Tuesday that it had signed a mutually beneficial agreement with the city of Pyeongtaek on Monday, along with the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. said on Monday that it is planning to recycle more than 5,500 tons of coffee grounds to achieve recycle rate of 97 percent by the end of this year. Starbucks began recording the quantity of coffee grounds it was recycling in 2014 to focus on [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched a recycling program to encourage the use of used coffee grounds as fertilizer. The new program is being trialed in a number of districts across the city including Jongno and Guro Districts, where 2,600 coffee shops will set aside used coffee grounds in transparent [...]