JEJU, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Island, South Korea’s popular tourist destination, is advancing an ambitious plan to transform food waste into hydrogen fuel, marking a significant step in the nation’s renewable energy initiatives. The Ministry of Environment is in discussions with Jeju provincial authorities to designate the island as the primary candidate for a [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – In an effort to curb carbon emissions through everyday actions against climate change, Songpa District in the South Korean capital will hold a contest for apartment complexes to reduce food waste from June through October, officials announced on May 21. The competition aims to encourage residents of larger residential buildings, [...]
JEJU, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A project is underway to use insects like ptecticus tenebrifers to deal with rotten tangerines and food waste on the southern resort island of Jeju. The Jeju Agricultural Technology Center said Wednesday it is carrying out an organic resource processing technology trial project in collaboration with local company Insung [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — GS Retail Co., operator of convenience store chain GS25, said Monday it will introduce food waste decomposers to achieve its goal of ‘zero food waste’. Unlike ordinary food waste disposers that produce effluents and other unnecessary byproducts or ‘dryers’ that use dehydration methods to minimize food waste, these decomposers [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s municipal government said Saturday it has translated its guidelines on separate disposal of food waste into 10 foreign languages for distribution to foreigners living in the capital. The 10 languages are English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Russian, Mongolian, French, Malay, Hindi and Thai. The government said the move comes [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean agriculture officials are encouraging organic food waste processing using insects. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) said on Tuesday it has set out a system both in terms of technology and policy to promote food waste bioconversion by environmentally beneficial insects Ptecticus tenebrifers. Each Ptecticus tenebrifer can consume between [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Seo District in Daejeon is introducing a usage-based food waste disposal system at apartment complexes as part of efforts to reduce food waste by 20 percent. As of now, residents at most of the apartment blocks in Seo District are charged a flat rate regardless of each individual’s food [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Aug 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Rural Development Administration has developed an agricultural technology of eliminating bad odor coming from food waste. A team of researchers at RDA came up with the new technology by combining pine cone leftover after pine nuts are extracted with bacillus, a type of microorganism cultured from [...]