"Namyang Dairy Conducts 'Milk Carton Collection Campaign' for Separate Milk Carton Disposal"

[Asia Economy Reporter Eunmo Koo] Namyang Dairy Products announced on the 30th that it will carry out a ‘Milk Carton Collection Campaign’ in collaboration with ‘CSR Impact,’ a consulting firm specializing in corporate ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) activities.

The Milk Carton Collection Campaign is an initiative aimed at encouraging the spread of awareness and activation of separate collection of paper cartons, whose recycling performance has been declining, by installing ‘Milk Carton and UHT Carton Collection Boxes’ nationwide.

Milk cartons must be separated from general waste paper and sorted separately between regular milk cartons and UHT (ultra-high temperature) milk cartons. If milk cartons are disposed of together with waste paper, recycling companies need to perform additional sorting, which increases costs and effectively makes recycling impossible. In particular, regular milk cartons, which account for about 70% of paper cartons, have high recycling value as raw materials for premium tissue paper and are easy to recycle, but a significant amount is still treated as waste due to improper separate collection.

To improve this situation, the Ministry of Environment has changed the separate collection labeling on paper cartons to distinguish between regular and UHT cartons starting from January this year and is conducting a ‘Paper Carton Separate Collection Pilot Project’ to increase recycling rates.

Namyang Dairy Products has completed the installation of milk carton and UHT carton collection boxes at 20 locations nationwide, including ‘Zero Waste Shops’ selling eco-friendly products and general cafes, and plans to expand the campaign by recruiting additional participants to increase the number of collection points to 100 nationwide.

A Namyang Dairy Products official stated, “As a leading domestic dairy company, we launched this campaign to improve awareness of proper separate collection of milk cartons,” adding, “We will continue steady eco-friendly activities to fulfill our corporate social responsibility.”

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