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  “An iced americano, please.” “We offer a drink in a reusable cup for environmental protection.” This is what we commonly hear at a café these days. As disposable plastic waste has increased since the COVID-19 outbreak, disposable cups are restricted at stores and are replaced with reusable ones such as mug cups or thermos. In fact, this movement began a while ago, but the targets were limited to cafés and their customers. Now, it is widely and rapidly applied to public organizations or companies. Then, what kinds of changes does the replacement bring to the environment? Reusable cup campaigns Public institutions and local governments are carrying forward environmental campaigns to reduce the use of disposable products and many of them include the introduction of a reusable cup system. As a part of ESG management practices, companies implemented a reusable cup sharing system at their in-company café, and movie theaters and universities also make various attempts to reduce single-u...

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...

  rePAPER developed RP-series, the patented environmentally friendly paper coating solution, and produces the coated board REPA COAT, and food packaging as its application. rePAPER’s products are proven to be truly environment-sound with its superior material and organic recyclability as well as to be food-contact safe. This time, we will introduce the certificates rePAPER owns and what features each of them refers to. 1. Recyclability (Material Recycling) The post-consumer products can be entirely repulped and used as a raw material for another paper-based product. 2. Compostability (organic recycling) : rePAPER’s products planted in the garden are degraded by microbes and become fertile compost. 3. Food contact safety : The products are safe to be in contact with foods as primary packaging.  With the objective and clear data achieved in accordance with the international standards, rePAPER has proven the environmentally friendly and harmless properties of the products. ...

We can easily spot ‘biodegradable’ products anywhere these days. Due to the climate change and the pandemic resulted from the pollution, environment-friendly property of a product has influenced a customer’s purchase decision more than ever. Generally, the word ‘biodegrade’ means that a material is degraded or decomposed by microbes such as molds or bacteria. Paper, woods, flowers, fruits, and fish shall be the most common examples as biodegradable materials. However, did you know that a plastic cup, a diaper, and even metal can be degradable, too? The only problem would be that it takes decades or even centuries to be so. Although corrosion by light, wind, or water is also a part of decomposition, today we will focus on materials’ degradability occurred by temperature, oxygen, and microbes. First, let’s find out what these two familiar, but confusing words, ‘biodegradable’ and ‘compostable’ exactly mean! The Difference Between Degradable and Compostable As the environmental awaren...

  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...