SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Geocentric Co., a chemical unit under South Korea’s SK Group, announced that it had signed an agreement with the Ministry of Environment, expressway operator Korea Expressway Corp. and bottled water brand Jeju Samdasoo to launch a campaign promoting the separate disposal of plastic bottles at expressway rest areas. [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. said Tuesday it had reached an agreement with local social venture NETSPA and non-governmental organization SEAM Center to support and cooperate for the recycling of discarded fishing nets. The company plans to provide financial support to NETSPA every year to support the latter’s [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea said Wednesday it will recycle 100 percent of its coffee grounds by 2027. Coffee grounds were considered a non-recyclable material until they were reclassified as a recirculation resource in March, allowing them to be used for a variety of purposes. The U.S. coffee giant plans to conduct [...]
BUSAN, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new attempt will be made to recycle the solar panels used for the nation’s industrial standards certification — known as KS certification — for the establishment of solar polar generators at welfare facilities. The Busan metropolitan government said Wednesday it had signed a business agreement with the Korea [...]
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, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Oilbank Co., a major South Korean refiner, has joined forces with construction company Samsung C&T Corp. to launch a plastic waste recycling business. The two parties announced on Tuesday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to promote cooperation in the area of the production of eco-friendly chemical [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee shops will now be able to recycle coffee grounds through more lenient requirements and procedures. The Ministry of Environment announced that it will designate coffee grounds as a ‘circulation resource’ starting on Tuesday. With the increasing amount of coffee consumption in South Korea, the volume of coffee grounds [...]
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, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of large companies in South Korea are collecting empty containers for their products from consumers as part of efforts to boost the recycling rate. CJ Cheiljedang Corp., the country’s leading food manufacturer, launched a service to collect the empty containers of its cooked rice product Hetbahn [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean solar panel makers and importers will face extra charges if they fail to fulfill their recycling obligations, starting from January 2023. The Ministry of Environment announced on Thursday that it would make an advance legislation notice on the partial revision of subordinate laws in three resource circulation [...]