SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Tuesday that it had approved the use of physically recycled material made of transparent waste PET bottles in the production of food containers. Thus far, plastic recycling in South Korea has been limited to the method of separating raw materials through [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. plans to produce a steel bar alternative using waste PET bottles as a raw material. The company announced on Wednesday that it will make a joint investment to establish a production line for the glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) bar “KEco-bar” in collaboration [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The environment ministry said Thursday it will launch a new initiative with the aim of enabling the reuse of transparent polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles as food containers through physical processing rather than chemical processing. The ministry issued a notice on the revision of facility and quality standards that the sorting and recycling [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s single-person households throw away about 30 pieces of disposable items per day on average, more than twice as much as the average multi-person household. According to a survey conducted by the Seoul Digital Foundation, the quantity of disposable packaging materials such as styrofoam thrown away by single-person households [...]
DAEJEON, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology said Thursday that it has developed a phytoplankton that can break down PET bottles. Since creatures living in the water, such as fish and shellfish, tend to ingest microplastics, the issue of plastic being concentrated in living organisms has become a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Public attention is being drawn to eco-friendly artwork installed in the world’s first Adidas concept store in South Korea. The store, set up near Hongik University in Seoul on December 20, is decorated with paintings of the Han River, and an art wall filled with works related to various [...]