SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Bae Min-ji’s ordinary day begins by boiling tap water to drink. The 29-year-old takes a shower using just a single bar of soap and brushes her teeth with a powdered toothpaste. With a tumbler, small cloth bags, a spoon and chopsticks, she is ready to leave the house and [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — New changes to recycling rules at apartment complexes in Seoul and the surrounding areas have left some residents perplexed. A number of recycling companies introduced stricter recycling rules this month, requiring people to clean food packages and refusing to accept polystyrene following price drops for recycled material in China. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) —In an attempt to encourage pedestrians to recycle, Seoul’s Seocho District is flexing its creative muscle. On August 7, the district office announced that it will place 44 recycling bins designed to look like giant coffee cups throughout the streets of the Gangnam and Banpo neighborhoods. Standing waist high, these garbage [...]
GÖTEBORG, Sweden, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) –In the latest research and development in self-driving vehicles, Volvo Group, together with Swedish waste and recycling specialists Renova, is testing a pioneering autonomous refuse truck that has the potential to be used across the urban environment. The project explores how automation can contribute to enhanced traffic safety, improved working conditions and [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government is teaming up with major coffeehouse chains in South Korea for a new recycling project that will see a weekly dose of coffee grounds reused as fertilizer and disposable cups collected for recycling, as part of a new environmental initiative set to kick off next month. [...]
BUSAN, Apr. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A startup business run by Tongmyong University students is paving the path for a new way to help prevent children in developing countries from contracting elephantiasis, by sending them shoes made from old street banners. The startup company, named “GGOOMer (Dreamer)”, made 350 pairs of shoes with the help [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Environment (MoE) in collaboration with Starbucks Korea and the Korea Zero Waste Movement Network held an event at Seoul Forest yesterday to celebrate Arbor Day, which is today. The event encouraging the recycling of resources including used coffee grounds took place as yesterday marked the first [...]
PAJU, South Korea, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Paju, a city located northwest of Seoul, approved Wednesday a private-funded BTO (build-transfer-operate) business plan to recycle treated waste water that will then be used by industrial complexes in the city. The new venture will make use of treated waste water from Paju through the establishment of [...]
ANDONG, South Korea, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – K-Water’s (Korea Water Resources Corporation) Andong regional office recently found a solution to the long-lived problem of cleaning up thousands of tons of floating debris near dams in the area, deciding to recycle the floating matter instead of wasting it. According to officials, hundreds of millions of [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Pukyong National University announced Wednesday that graduate student Seonwoo In-young (26), recently succeeded in producing bioethanol using dead seaweed that washed ashore after a tropical storm. Seaweed plays an essential role as a food source, habitat, and spawning ground for marine organisms, but only when its alive underwater. Dead [...]