INCHEON, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon’s coastal areas and uninhabited islands that are found in surveillance system blind spots are being inundated with thousands of pieces of garbage. Green Korea United (GKU), a civic activist group, said Thursday that it had detected and collected 6,845 pieces of garbage such as plastic and styrofoam as [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Beaches in the southern port city of Busan and along the east coast are covered with a huge amount of garbage and debris after the regions were hit hard by two powerful typhoons over the past week. Local governments in the typhoon-hit regions said Wednesday they are mobilizing excavators [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The district of Gwanak in Seoul announced on Thursday that it will hold a ‘Trash-Tag Challenge’ to encourage residents to clean up public areas until May 24. Trash-tag is a combination of the words “trash” and “tag,” a term used on social media for tagging keywords. The Trash-Tag Challenge [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Metropolitan Government announced on August 23 that it will be holding a special raffle event as part of its citywide cleanup efforts. The event will be restricted to Millak Waterfront Park to tackle waste left by visitors who do not correctly dispose of their garbage. To place [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Let’s try a thought experiment for a moment. Picture in your mind, an empty, crushed aluminum soda can. It’s slightly sticky around the edges and speckled with dirt. Got it? Now, picture in your mind a one month-old puppy. It’s fluffy, helpless and frightened. See the connection? If you’re wondering [...]
GOYANAG, Jan.28 (Korea Bizwire) – A senior citizen named Jang (90, female) who lives alone in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province eats her meals at a local soup kitchen. She always brings a stroller, and picks up all sorts of things on her way to the soup kitchen. She doesn’t sell the things for money, nor collect [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A mid-sized Korean enterprise with an automation solution to collect and classify garbage has recently succeeded in signing a deal to install a large-scale system in China. Tongzhou District of Beijing is a site where the Chinese government is building a new residential “low-carbon” city. Envac said on August 25 that it [...]