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  Each time rePAPER achieves a certificate for each of the product’s environmentally friendly properties, we have been asked how a certificate is different from others and what difference they have. So, we will study and compare the certificates that rePAPER holds today. rePAPER’s Certificates for Environment-Friendly Properties Recyclability: Korean Eco Label EL606, UL_UL2485, PTS _ PTS-RH:021/97 Compostability: Industrial Compostable, Home Compostable by DIN CERTCO   Let’s find out their distinctive features!   1.1 Recyclable Certificates 1) Korean Eco Label EL606 Korean Eco Label EL606 is issued for a product that is paper, pulp, or synthetic resin-based with definite supportive evidence for its eco-friendliness such as contribution to improve the resource circulation or to reduce the environmental pollution. Such performance is proven by repulpability analysis. However, did you know that EL606 standard was initially limited to a product that contains s...

  On July 31 st , the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identified certain types of PFAS to be highly hazardous and decided to phase out the production and use of the material in the US. Let’s find out why the organization disapproves PFAS and a safe food packaging alternative rePAPER suggests. “Forever Chemical” PFAS, Accumulated in Our Bodies PFCs (Poly- and Per-fluorinated Compounds) refer to the group of materials which their hydrogen in hydrocarbon is substituted to fluorine. Among PFCs, PFAS(Per– and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) has been widely used from the surface coating for cookware, surgical gowns and drapes, cell phones, semiconductor, low-emission vehicles, clothing, furniture to fast food and take-out food packaging. However, certain types of PFAS such as PFOA and PFOS had already been banned in the US market due to their notorious effects on humans, causing hormone changes, increased cholesterol, weakened the immune system, certain types of cancer and low birt...

The largest international environmental film festival in Asia, Seoul International Eco Film Festival – hereinafter SEFF, has introduced outstanding global environmental films. Since its launch in 2004, the festival has been served as a place where people look for the ways for coexistence of the environment and human beings and discuss potential solutions and the acts required for the future. Let’s take an example of the film <Plastic China> that won the Green Competition Best Feature Film at the 15th SEFF in 2017. This film was known to trigger China’s ban on recyclable waste imports and even to affect the <Act on the Promotion of saving and recycling of resources> in Korea in 2018. This movie is about the environment polluted by our reckless consumption and dispose of single-use plastic packaging and how it is closely connected with people’s lives. It criticizes human being’s indiscreet consumption on resource in the name of convenience and how seriously the pollution ha...