SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A social enterprise backed by SK Innovation Co., the energy and chemical affiliate of the South Korean conglomerate SK Group, has unveiled a lightweight safety helmet made by recycling waste helmets. Usisan said on Tuesday it had developed a lightweight safety helmet by recycling waste safety helmets and plastic [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK Ecoplant Co. said Thursday it has secured an additional electronic waste and waste battery recycling base in the North American market through its overseas subsidiary. TES Envirocorp, a Singapore-based electronic waste management solution provider acquired by SK ecoplant last year, completed and started operating an [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run National Institute of Environmental Research on Wednesday revealed that 34 new types of recycling have been approved under its Recycling Availability Assessment System, paving the way for recycling 3.13 million tons of waste as resources. This system, introduced in 2016, is designed to approve new types of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Face masks that used to symbolize the pandemic era are now turning into a source of environmental harm. The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) reported that each South Korean citizen used a new disposable mask every 2.3 days on average last year. More than 7.3 billion masks were [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s Brazil office on Monday (local time) unveiled an online store-dedicated discount policy to promote the recycling of old home appliances. The new program, dubbed EcoTroca, provides a discount coupon to consumers who return old home electronics as a way to encourage their disposal in a proper and sustainable [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung C&T Corp., the construction unit of Samsung Group, said Wednesday it had made new employee ID card cases by recycling waste helmets from its construction sites. The company said that it was the first among domestic companies to make employee ID card cases using waste generated during business [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is reviewing the idea of imposing recycling obligations on clothing companies. The Ministry of Environment said Sunday that it recently outsourced a study on the so-called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), a legislative strategy used by many developed countries to encourage manufacturers to design environmentally friendly products. In [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will exhibit an artwork made by recycling an OLED TV packaging box at the Nike Art Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria by the end of this year. The artwork was created in collaboration with the African climate change response NGO Solution 17 and a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chemical company SK Chemicals Co. said Tuesday that it had teamed up with local toothbrush maker KNK to jointly develop the nation’s first toothbrush made from chemically recycled plastic material. Chemically recycled plastic refers to the material that is made by breaking down and returning waste plastic [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Kolon Group, a mid-sized business conglomerate focused on the chemical and textile businesses, said Wednesday it had succeeded in recycling one-off masks that are wasted after a single use through an in-house campaign. The group installed one-off mask collection boxes at seven major workplaces across the country and provided [...]