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  The Ministry of Environment and Korea Waste Association established Resource Circulation Day on September 6 th to remind the importance of limited resources and to think of solutions for resource waste. Greeting the 13th Resource Circulation Day this year, we would like to check the current system for resource circulation and necessary changes for it to be expanded and developed.     Disappearing resource due to continuous development Generally speaking, resource refers to natural resources that are generated from nature. They are categorized into two different groups; renewable resources such as forests, water, wind, solar energy that are repeatedly produced over time, and non-renewable resources such as minerals and fossils fuels that do not exist anymore once they are used up. Going through 4 times of industrial revolution, humans are now facing an ICT merging generation after the era of mechanization and mass production. In the meantime, the innovative manu...

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...