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  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. ...

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...

  Have you heard of the movie, “Dark Waters”? Inspired by a true story, the movie talks about how dangerous PFCs(Per- and polyfluoro compounds) could be. It starts with 190 milk cows dying around the town where one of the major chemical manufacturing companies, DuPont, is located. People suffer from diseases for no apparent reason. Later, it turns out that they are related to PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic Acid), a harmful kind of PFCs, secretly released from the plant. Finding out the truth, Robert Bilott, an attorney of the case, started to fight for the case for 20 years since 1998 and finally had DuPont make reparations of $671 million.   PFCs(fluoropolymer), Carcinogen That Might Be Around Us All the Time PFCs are compounds that all – or some parts- of hydrogen in hydrocarbons are substituted for fluorine. They are used widely from various industry fields such as firefighting foams and cleaning in semiconductor manufacturing plants to consumer products like cookware, food pa...

  After concluding a supply contract of the environmentally friendly coating with rePAPER in 2019, Moorim Paper has been striving to develop recyclable and compostable coated paper and products. Followed by NeoStraw which has already been supplied to major café chains, they now released a new product, Neoforet, the environmentally friendly cupstock brand. Moorim Paper also have the product certified for the OK Compost Industrial Compostable granted by TUV Austria, one of the well-known certification body in Europe. This is equivalent to the one rePAPER achieved from DIN CERTCO, the certification organization of the German Institution for Standardization. Please check Newsletter Volume #1 to find out about the certification. In order to achieve the certificates, a product needs to be tested under various criteria including whether the composted product contain any heavy metals or release any toxic materials that can be harmful to the ecosystem. rePAPER, especially, proved that...

  SEBAU Campaign is back! Jeju Olle announced another start of “Eco&Life, We Change The World – shortened as SEBAU in Korean’ this month. The Campaign organized by Seoul Economic Daily and Jeju Olle is an engagement campaign pursuing the resource circulation from production, consumption to recycling through the use of environment-friendly product.   SEBAU Campaign, The Beginning of Resource Circulation Together Jeju, a beautiful treasure island, is one of the most well-known tourist attractions in Korea that over 1.6 million tourists visit annually. However, it has been struggling with the increased amount of waste in proportion to the growing number of tourists. In order to help this troubled Jeju Island, SEBAU campaign was organized suggesting a more sustainable way. The 1 st SEBAU started in May last year with 65 cafes located around Olle trails. They mandatorily use a reusable cup for in-store customers and provide a drink in the SEBAU Eco-friendly Cup made of...

China announced an environmentally friendly strategy on disposables that they would start the restriction on single-use products and the affected areas would be expanded nationwide within 5 years on January 19 th , 2020. The world’s biggest city, New York, began the ban on plastic bags and the most populated state, California signed on the legislations to stop the use of plastic containers for hotels’ amenities. Korean government also set up a 5-year roadmap on disposables in November of 2019 and aimed to reduce the consumption rate by 35% by 2020. While they steadily settle the regulations accordingly, an unexpected hurdle appeared. It is COVID-19.   COVID-19 Changed Our Lives WHO officially announced “pandemic” which refers to a disease epidemic that has spread across a large region as this novel virus seems to be highly contagious. The number of confirmed cases is 213,839 over the world and about 20,000 is added up daily. Consequently, it has brought some noticeable chan...

  The fear and anxiety about COVID-19 has spread the world. Showing the symptoms of respiratory illness, this new type of virus is known to be contagious by human-to-human transmission and people have become vulnerable to see how fast it gets into their daily lives. As the virus was resulted from unsanitary food distribution system and eating practices, everyone became extremely careful about individual hygiene. Consequently, the needs of single-use products have been drastically increased, especially in the places where people with a low immune system gather.   Stop the COVID-19 from Spreading! Temporary Allowance on Disposable Products Since the revised Act on the Promotion of Saving and Recycling of Resources was implemented in 2018, it has been prohibited to offer single use plastic containers for the in-store customers at food service areas in Korea. After the outbreak of COVID-19, however, the Ministry of Environment temporarily lifted the regulation for where there ...