SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea said Friday it will stop using disposable cups at all of its stores on South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju within this year in the latest move to protect the environment. Starbucks said it eliminated all single-use cups at four of its stores on Jeju [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea said Wednesday that it plans to discontinue the use of disposable cups at four of its stores on the southern resort island of Jeju from next month. On Wednesday, the local unit of the U.S. coffee giant signed a pilot program cooperation agreement with the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Korea has vowed to ban the use of disposable cups at all stores in four years. The local unit of the U.S. coffee giant announced the Better Together project on Tuesday, revealing the company’s long-term strategic goals. The company first aims to introduce reusable cups at all stores [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jung district office in the port city of Busan announced on Tuesday that it will re-launch a program that encourages participants to exchange disposable take-out cups for standard plastic garbage bags. This move is a part of efforts to promote recycling under circumstances in which the use of [...]
BUSAN, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The policy of restricting the use of disposable cups in coffee shops has been in place since last August, but one in ten people still use disposable cups inside the stores. The Zero Waste Citizen Center conducted a survey of 239 coffee shops in Busan on the use of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s disposable cup ban at the city hall cafe has resulted in the saving of 200,000 disposable cups. According to the city government on Monday, from August of last year to February this year the number of plastic and paper cups used decreased by 63,000 and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group has vowed to create more social value within the community by kicking off an environmental campaign that aims to reduce the use of disposable cups within the company. According to a source within SK Group, companies currently situated within the SK Building in Jongno, Seoul including SK [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — With the Seoul Metropolitan Government beginning a crackdown on the use of disposable cups at coffee shops in the city, there were still a few outlets that offered plastic cups to their customers, although an official inspection by the city government concluded otherwise. When six coffee shops in Jongno-gu [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Use of disposable cups in South Korea surged to a record-high volume last year mainly due to heavy coffee drinking, government data showed Sunday. The Ministry of Environment said more than 672.4 million disposable cups were used in South Korea last year, up 7.7 percent from the 2014 tally [...]