Korean Ministry of Environment Moves Towards Complete Resource Circulation!
A new mark for a coated/laminated product and bioplastics on packaging implemented in 2022. The Ministry of Environment announced that they would establish a mark for composite packaging that has been treated as municipal waste due to its low recyclability and for bioplastics on February 24th. A new waste sorting mark, how is it going to be different from now? World’s 2 nd Recyclable Waste Collecting Rate! How about in Reality? It was in 1995 when a garbage disposal system was first introduced to Korea and a high recyclable waste sorting rate has been our pride, following Germany. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Environment, the separate collecting rate reaches 87.1% in 2019. However, not all of the waste is recycled. Experts say that it is barely about 30% that actually goes back to the resource and too many colors, materials, undetachable labels, and foreign substance, and uncertain waste sorting standards are blamed for it. Thus, the Ministry of Environment...