Hyundai Home Shopping Uses 'Eco-Friendly Polybags' for Clothing Delivery... Carbon Emissions Reduced by 70%

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] Hyundai Home Shopping is strengthening its eco-friendly delivery efforts. Earlier this year, it introduced 100% paper-based delivery boxes without adhesives for clothing products, and now plans to switch the ‘polybags’ (plastic packaging) used to wrap clothing inside delivery boxes to eco-friendly materials.

Hyundai Home Shopping announced on the 4th that starting this month, it will replace the polybags used to wrap clothing products inside delivery boxes with ‘eco-friendly polybags’ made from recycled raw materials (recycled resin extracted from waste polybags).

Generally, polybags are made using 100% polyethylene, a type of plastic, but the eco-friendly polybags introduced by Hyundai Home Shopping reduce carbon emissions by about 70% during production by utilizing recycled raw materials. In particular, these eco-friendly polybags have received environmental label certification from the Ministry of Environment, and were produced with a recycled raw material content 30% higher than the certification standard of ‘at least 40% recycled raw materials.’

Hyundai Home Shopping will first introduce the eco-friendly polybags to fashion PB brands such as Milanostory, Lasciento, and Gobi, and plans to gradually expand the application to other brands by the end of this year. The company aims to replace about half of the polybags used for all fashion product deliveries (2.4 million units) with eco-friendly polybags by next year, and plans to expand to full usage within 2 to 3 years.

In addition, ice packs (cooling packs) used for refrigerated and frozen food deliveries will also be switched to eco-friendly materials. The external packaging will be changed from plastic to paper, and the synthetic gel cooling agent will be replaced with water. Customers can open the ice pack along the perforation line indicated on the pack, discard the water, and separate the external packaging as paper for recycling. By the end of this year, Hyundai Home Shopping plans to replace more than half of the 1.2 million ice packs used annually with eco-friendly materials.

Meanwhile, Hyundai Home Shopping was the first in the home shopping industry to introduce eco-friendly delivery boxes without tape last year. Earlier this year, it also launched 100% paper-based delivery boxes that can be packaged without adhesives, leading the way in eco-friendly delivery. Hyundai Home Shopping’s active push for eco-friendly delivery is due to the growing social issue of delivery packaging waste and increasing interest in reducing single-use products.

A Hyundai Home Shopping official said, “We are actively improving delivery packaging materials to realize the social value of environmental protection and meet customers’ expectations for eco-friendliness,” adding, “We plan to establish eco-friendly policies and campaigns that will enable customers to more easily participate in resource saving.”

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