NS Home Shopping Launches Eco-Friendly Delivery Service in Suwon

Signed a Business Agreement with the Ministry of Environment and Suwon City
Pilot Application of Reusable Transport Packaging Materials

On the 17th, NS Home Shopping signed a business agreement at Suwon City Hall with the Ministry of Environment and Suwon City for the pilot application of reusable transport packaging. The photo shows Yeom Tae-young, Mayor of Suwon (third from the left), Cho Myung-rae, Minister of Environment, and Cho Hang-mok, Co-CEO of NS Home Shopping, posing for a commemorative photo after signing the agreement.

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] NS Home Shopping announced on the 18th that it signed a business agreement on the 17th at Suwon City Hall with the Ministry of Environment and Suwon City to pilot the use of reusable transport packaging materials.

The signing ceremony was attended by Cho Myung-rae, Minister of Environment; Yeom Tae-young, Mayor of Suwon; Jo Hang-mok, Co-CEO of NS Home Shopping; as well as representatives from distribution and logistics industries including Lotte Mart, Oasis Market, and Ongdago. On-site demonstrations of eco-friendly delivery systems such as reusable packaging materials, hub delivery centers, smart storage lockers, and electric vehicles were also conducted.

The attendees agreed to pilot the use of reusable packaging materials instead of single-use packaging in parcel delivery and to work towards establishing a system for using reusable packaging materials. They committed to refraining from additional packaging during the sales process of already packaged products, minimizing the packaging space ratio and the number of packaging layers of transport packaging materials, and applying customized appropriate packaging design.

Starting this month, the pilot application of reusable packaging materials will focus on the Suwon I-Park City, consisting of a total of 6,658 households, and the surrounding areas of Gwonseon-gu, Suwon City. Through this, single-use packaging materials from a total of three distribution companies including NS Home Shopping will be replaced with reusable packaging materials. It is expected to reduce approximately 66 tons of packaging waste, including 53 tons of paper boxes and 13 tons of Styrofoam, throughout the entire Gwonseon-gu area.

Meanwhile, NS Home Shopping has been strengthening its internal and external environmental management activities since 2016, including sponsoring environmental ecology festivals for the general public. In particular, it introduced eco-friendly ice packs that use water instead of refrigerants and can be separated for recycling, wing boxes that can be packaged without tape, and paper ice packs that can be disposed of by discarding water and recycling the paper. Last summer, during the heatwave, it used higher-cost frozen bottled water instead of ice packs and fully covered the costs without burdening partner companies to ensure that eco-friendly delivery does not impose a burden on small and medium-sized partners.

Jo Hang-mok, Co-CEO of NS Home Shopping, said, "In the trend of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) management, corporate eco-friendly activities are not a choice but a necessity for sustainable growth," adding, "We will continue to strive to maintain the highest quality and service for customers while reducing the burden on partners and establishing eco-friendly delivery."

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