SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea has won international praise for its recycling efforts, but as it prepares to host talks for a global plastic waste agreement, experts say the country's approach ...

Deep-dive into the waste segregation and collection practices being used in South Korea The Korean government promotes the separation of wastes into food waste, unrecyclable waste, and recyclable ...

It’s one thing to take leftover industrial waste and repurpose it into art, but it’s another thing entirely to equip a factory to turn its own byproducts into imaginative and useful objects. This ...

Trash for one person can become a valuable resource for another — and, increasingly, a profitable business model. That was the message of the first session of H.eco Tech Festa 2026, where ...

Biodiesel plants worldwide produce roughly one kilogram of crude glycerol for every ten kilograms of fuel they make. Most of that glycerol is a headache: too impure to sell at a premium, too costly to ...

“Are onion skins not food waste?” “Do I have to remove the cap from a glass bottle before throwing it out?” These questions came quickly during a waste sorting workshop for international students at ...

On the afternoon of the 13th, when I climbed to the observatory of the low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste disposal facility located in Munmu Daewang-myeon, Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang ...

Many foreign residents in South Korea may have run into problems with garbage disposal. Public trash bins can be found on some streets, but they are few and far between, and they are not meant for ...

As Mongolian consumption increases, the capital, and its municipalities need a working mechanism to manage the growing amount of waste. Mongolia’s waste sector is in dire need of not only policy ...