SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Retailers are going beyond recycling to introduce upcycled products, so as to go beyond reusing old products to turn them into value-added merchandise. Hyundai Department Store Co. used old banners displayed on the outer walls of the store for advertisement and promotion to make upcycled bags, which are available [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO O&M, a facility management unit of POSCO Engineering & Construction Co., said Monday that it had joined hands with local social venture firm Zainer to produce eco-knives by upcycling scrap metal. The eco-knife was unveiled on Wadiz, South Korea’s largest crowdfunding platform. The funding project will continue until [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan’s Haeundae District received a design award in Hong Kong for an upcycling project that turns old clothes into bags. The ‘Upcycle Closet Project,’ co-hosted by the district and the Haeundae Technology Education Center, won the Social Innovation Award at the 2020 Future Tense Design Award. The award from [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Global Chemical Co., a chemical affiliate of South Korea’s energy giant SK Innovation Co., has announced that it is reusing bale silage plastic as upcycled bags for petrochemical products. Bale silage, the ‘giant marshmallows’ lying in fields, refers to bales of hay or other crops wrapped in multiple [...]
Paris, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) - Ecoslops is pleased to announce the signature of a first sales contract for its “Scarabox®”, a containerized unit for upcycling used lube oil and oil residues. Following the signature of a letter of intent on June 24th, 2020, this contract was signed with the Cameroonian company Valtech Energy, which belongs [...]
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SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Public phone booths, seen as an outdated legacy of the past following the introduction of mobile phones, are turning into workspaces and playgrounds. KT Linkus, a public phone arm of KT Corp., jointly with a local office-leasing company Ara WorkNAll, will upcycle public phone booths into one-person workplaces. Named [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — MORE THAN, a social enterprise fostered by SK Innovation Co., a major energy and chemical company, has embarked on a project to recycle marine debris to make fashion products. Of all marine debris, fishing nets account for a fairly large share at 19 percent. These fishing nets are saturated [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae DF Inc., the duty-free arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, plans to hold a campaign to raise public awareness about environmental pollution caused by plastic waste and the importance of upcycling. Upcycling refers to the act of creating new products using recycled materials, refined with new design [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — When studying in Britain in 2010, Choi Ian was shocked one morning to find his old yet beloved Rover Mini parked on the street and crushed so heavily in both the front and rear that repairs made no sense. The insurance firm offered money in exchange for scrapping the [...]