SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — About 1,800 Seoul citizens made a joint declaration to reduce the use of plastics at the Han River and streams in the Seoul area. The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday hosted a special event marking World Water Day to celebrate the “No Plastic Han River” joint citizen action day. [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources said Wednesday its researchers had developed a new recycling process for waste coffee capsules. The research team crushed and washed waste coffee capsules composed of plastics (97.3 percent) and aluminum (2.7 percent) to remove coffee residue. With a secondary crushing process [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that plastic parts that the company has recycled from discarded ocean-bound fishing nets, which are used to make Galaxy smartphones, tablet PCs and laptops, are more effective in cutting back on carbon emissions than other kinds of plastic. The life cycle assessment (LCA) results [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Food and beverage manufacturers are complaining that the government’s upcoming policy requiring companies to pay a deposit for using a designated number of disposable plastic cups, aimed at raising the waste recycling rate, imposes the cost on the companies only. The new policy will require companies to request the number [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Restaurant owners recognize the fact that plastic is both costly and bad for the environment, but the lack of an alternative leaves them with no choice but to use it, a survey showed Tuesday. The Korea Foodservice Industry Research Institute conducted a survey of 150 restaurant owners, 73.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The southern resort island of Jeju, increasingly affected by a surge in garbage caused by a drastic rise in the number of visitors and rapidly growing population, is stepping up to reduce plastic waste. The Small Enterprise and Market Service reported that as of April 2019, Jeju Province had [...]
DAEJEON, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have announced the development of a new device that can measure plastic particles in water that are only nanometers in size. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology announced Tuesday that they had developed optoelectronic tweezers that can capture small particles underwater and conduct [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Makers, an order-based production platform under Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, announced Wednesday a new eco-friendly project called ‘Prime People’ to promote plastic recycling. Plastics are separated by their material and type before they are recycled, and small-sized plastics like bottle caps [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent trend has prompted a growing number of consumers to send secondary disposable products that come attached to a primary product back to the manufacturer. These disposable items include plastic straws attached to milk packs, plastic covers, and packages of lactic acid bacteria wrapped with multiple plastic bags. [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Worms that consume plastic was found to excrete smaller, nano plastic particles, further damaging the environment. The Korea Research Foundation announced Monday that a research team led by Prof. An Youn-joo from Konkuk University discovered that plastic is dissolved into smaller particles inside a worm’s intestine. Plastic litter is [...]