Suwon City’s Tree Tag, the Green Collaboration with rePAPER’s Eco-friendly Coated Paper!

Suwon is a city where it cherishes and preserves its historical background while showing a refined beauty as a new town with the biggest scale of a lake in a city in Korea. The city is harmonized with the past, the present, and the future and it has been keen to accomplish citizen’s sustainable life. As a part of it, they started a project titled ‘GREEN TAG TOGETHER’ to manage trees properly in the city this year. More importantly, this GREEN TAG project is the collaboration work with rePAPER’s environment-friendly technology. Lets’ find out the details!


Public Plant Management with rePAPER’s Eco-friendly Biodegradable Paper!

Suwon city decided to introduce eco-friendly GREEN TAG to manage the trees planted throughout the city in a more efficient way. They first considered using a regular tree tag, but its high cost and heavyweight were not approved to be effective. Therefore, they looked for a material that would be harmless to the environment and ensure easy and continuous management. That’s when they came across REPA COAT, the paper board lined with rePAPER’s RP-series.

This project approached with a creative idea and attempt is especially impressive, for it shows Suwon city’s advanced movement for a sustainable environment. The city prioritized environmentally friendly properties while planning the project and they chose REPA COAT for its organic recyclability, compostability, to make a tree tag.

It is durability and environment-friendliness that is required most for the tag. As it is exposed to rough climate changes such as rain, wind, snow in a wide range of temperatures, it should be waterproof to endure wetting or tearing and have resource circulation property, organic recyclability, that they can naturally become fertile soil after a while. The GREEN TAG with rePAPER’s technology applied has the paper’s natural environmentally friendly properties while satisfying the conditions above.


Suwon City’s Green Tag Resembling a Green Tree

Suwon city also put a lot of thoughts into the design, too. The color is set for one color considering the environment and the edges are rounded not to hurt the plants. In addition, the tag can hold information on the purpose of the project, tree species, planting date, and the department in charge. These details enabling proper management of the plants are distinctive difference from before and it says on the bottom that the product is applied with environmentally friendly material that it becomes biodegraded, sharing their environment-friendly administration to the public.

Suwon city making such an advanced environment-friendly administration step held an event to celebrate 76th Arbor Day at Gwanggyo Lake Park on April 1st. On the day, the city mayor, Taeyoung Yeom, NGOs, and some officials joined the event and planted 1,500 trees around the park. People found GREEN TAG made with rePAPER’s technology hanging on each tree and showed great interest. GREEN TAG will also be given to the other trees planted in the city afterward.


Sustainable City We Make Together, One Advanced Step Towards the Environment

Suwon City was already recognized for its excellent environmental administration such as being nominated as A City Of Clean Water at 2020 Environment-friendly City Award. This new project, GREEN TAG, became a good example of how the interest in nature can be connected to a creative administration and it was a memorable and meaningful collaborative work for us, rePAPER, too. In addition, it also showed potential that REPA COAT can not only be applied to food packaging, but also to various posts that should be displayed outdoor. rePAPER hopes that more and more cities join this environmentally friendly movement like GREEN TAG that is well harmonized with the environment.

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