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Recently, every country has been accelerating to finalize and implement the ban on single-use plastics that was at a halt for a while due to the pandemic. As it is reported that 8 million tons of plastic waste is dumped in the ocean every year, it has been destroying the marine ecosystem and has compromised seafood safety. Witnessing beautiful beaches being covered by piles of plastic waste, the world agrees that we need a more fundamental countermeasure. For this reason, rePAPER would like to understand and grasp each country’s approach and effort to solve this plastic pollution issue in the following two episodes. Today, we are going to start with the Americas who lead global economic flow and trend and European countries working for the environment as a unit?   1. Americas’ intense battle against plastic 1) The USA The legislatures of each state in North America began their journey to reduce the use of single-use plastics. As they influence the world's plastic consumption  ...

rePAPER’s environmentally friendly technology news delivered by Chinese blog There are many major distributors and convertors dominating the global market in Greater China. Due to direct or indirect impacts from the world’s plastic pollution, there have been a lot of inquiries and requests on environmentally friendly materials and products as alternatives. Some of the companies swiftly started seeking for such products and found rePAPER’s recyclable and home compostable paper coating technology that satisfies the global standards and they have suggested cooperation in various fields. *Click the image to move to rePAPER’s Chinese blog! Therefore, rePAPER opened a Chinese blog to lay a foothold to deliver our news on the environment-friendly paper coating technology and global trends in relevant industries more easily and conveniently to those in Greater China. We look forward to stretching out to the broader world with our technology by lively information exchange!   rePAPER’s...

COVID-19 has rapidly spread around the world and it made everyone’s 2020 tough and left great regrets. However, the news about vaccines gave the world the hope that the upcoming year would be different. We, rePAPER, would like to take this time to look back the year and get fully ready for 2021. 1. Catch me if you can! rePAPER’s Advanced Technology – PTS, DIN Certificates, GB-Compliance, and Patents Added As rePAPER has been setting the world-leading standards for environmentally friendly packaging, we took the year as well to prove our innovative technology. rePAPER’s coated paper, REPA COAT, is now proven to have 99.9% recyclability by PTS, and to become nutrients in soil without any special facilities by achieving DIN’s home compostable certificate. In December, we finally received a positive result that our product is compliant with GB standards in China as well. What’s more, the production methods of the environmentally friendly coatings and coated paper are now protected by...

  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 June 18th, distributors and consumers were put in a great confusion. Articles were released saying the Repackaging Ban starting from the following month practically means that the Government would forbid discount promotions such as “Buy one, get one free”. The article bitterly criticized that the Korean would be the first country to ban on bundle discount in the world. Let’s keep reading to see what this controversial law exactly is and the true intention for it!   Why Ban on Repackaging? The repackaging ban law is to prohibit distributors from selling products after re-packaging. Packaging is primarily used to prevent a product from being destroyed or lost and to deliver a product’s information to a customer. As the excessive packaging has become a popular marketing form, however, the amount of waste has been soaring up. In order to resolve the waste issue, the Ministry of Environment carried forward the measures to prevent excessive packaging on January 14 th thi...

Do you remember when fresh-cut fruits and vegetables were first introduced? These products were considered as representatives that show the values that young generation prioritize the most, efficiency and convenience. Well, now customers go to a mart to purchase cuisine instead of choosing every ingredient. If you can’t find a time to go shopping, a few clicks will deliver delicious HMR foods right to your front door in the early next morning. What is HMR? Korea Agro-Fisheries& Food Trade Corporation, hereinafter aT, defined HMR (Home Meal Replacement) as ready-made products that can be served as a decent meal with simple steps of cooking. Depending on the necessity of cooking or heating, products are usually categorized into 3 groups, RTE, RTH, and RTC. Soaring HMR Market According to aT’s ‘Report on Segment of Processed Food’, the domestic HMR market size was reported to be 3.4 billion dollars in 2019. It is expected to continuously growing to over 4.1 billion dollars b...

As the amendment of Act on the Promotion of Saving and Recycling of Resources was resolved     at a Cabinet council on the 2 nd of June, Ministry of Environment officially announced that a refund- deposit system on disposable cups is set to start from June of 2022. The system asks a customer to pay a deposit to use a single-use cup at a cafe and give a refund when returning the container. In fact, it is not brand-new in Korea.   The First Introduction in 2002, and Homework It Left Ministry of Environment first introduced the deposit system on disposable cups in 2002 in order to reduce the use of paper cups and to improve the collecting rate. At that time, it was upon the voluntary agreement with 5 café chains and 13 fast food restaurants. The ministry charged $0.083 and $0.041 for deposit on a fast food cup and a coffee cup respectively, and the unreturned deposit was supposed to be used for environmental scholarship and funds for environmental conservation. Accord...