SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Food waste thrown away by supermarkets will be recycled into compost for use on farms working as suppliers for the supermarkets. GS Retail Co., a major South Korean retailer and GS The Fresh, a supermarket franchise, have decided to produce compost by using food waste from manufacturing facilities and [...]
GURI, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Guri has developed a machine that transforms cigarette butts into compost and is now trialing the technology on government office grounds. Placed inside a smoking booth, the machine is the first of its kind to be implemented in South Korea. Through a process of disintegration and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Until last year, Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo District collected the fallen leaves on the ground and converted them into compost. As part of a project launched in 2015, the district office considered the idea to be a three-pronged approach: it would reduce the amount of dead vegetation requiring disposal, reduce the [...]
ANDONG, South Korea, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – K-Water’s (Korea Water Resources Corporation) Andong regional office recently found a solution to the long-lived problem of cleaning up thousands of tons of floating debris near dams in the area, deciding to recycle the floating matter instead of wasting it. According to officials, hundreds of millions of [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Korea’s latest eco-friendly effort, using coffee grounds as compost to grow crops and purchasing the harvested products, was chosen as June’s ‘Excellent Example of Coexistent Cooperation in Agricultural Products’ by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA). According to the ministry, Starbucks Korea is currently supplying [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – What would you do with huge piles of dead leaves along the streets? A slew of agricultural technology management authorities turn these useless fallen leaves into useful ones by using them to make compost. Seowon District in Cheongju City offers a service to this end in which the city [...]