SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Plastic bottles collected by GS25, a convenience store chain run by GS Retail Co., will be upcycled into hiking clothes designed by outdoor apparel maker Black Yak. GS Retail announced Monday that it had signed a contract with Black Yak to collaborate on a project to scrap plastic bottles and develop [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s southeastern Songpa district said Thursday it will collect and sort cans and plastic bottles automatically using artificial intelligence (AI)-based resource circulation and collection robots. The district office will install a couple of such robots within its district. The AI-based robots will automatically sort, compress and store cans and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Chemical Corp., a major South Korean petrochemical company, said Thursday that eco-friendly products made with plastic bottles such as bags and running shoes have been introduced at Project LOOP, a campaign for a virtuous circle of plastic waste. Project LOOP aims to minimize environmental damage and fulfill the [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The local government is stepping up to recycle plastic bottles into clothes and bags. The Cheonan city office in South Chungcheong Province announced Tuesday that it has signed a contract with the Ministry of Environment, the Korea Packaging Recycling Cooperative (KPRC), and a number of private companies to set [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean petrochemical firm will launch a project to improve awareness of resource circulation and establish a new domestic plastic recycling economy. Lotte Chemical Corp. held a signing ceremony for “Project Loop” with seven companies in Seoul Monday to establish a plastic recycling economy by improving the culture [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A newly developed technology uses material from recycled plastic bottles as components of pharmaceutical products. A joint research team from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Korea University, and Ewha Women’s University announced on Tuesday that they had developed a new technology that chemically disassembles plastic bottles [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns have been raised that the government’s restrictions on the use of colored bottles and plastic bottles could lead to price hikes for liquor and cosmetics products and hinder exports as well. The Ministry of Environment classified the revision of the Resource Recycling Act, which will take effect on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart Inc. revealed yesterday that it will be adopting eco-friendly packaging that would allow plastic containers belonging to its own brand products to be recycled with ease. Colored plastic bottles and caps will be replaced with colorless plastic. In addition, product labels will be made easier to remove. E-Mart [...]