Transparent PET Bottles Poured Out at Champsfield Transform into T-Shirts

On the 17th, Gwangju City signed a business agreement for the 'Transparent PET Bottle Collection Project' at the Gwangju Kia Champions Field office, with officials from the Ministry of Environment, KIA Tigers, Superbin, and the Korea Recycling Resource Distribution Support Center in attendance.
[Photo by Gwangju City]

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Approximately 370,000 transparent PET bottles generated at Gwangju Kia Champions Field (hereinafter Champs Field) will be reborn as about 30,000 T-shirts.

On the 17th, Gwangju City signed a business agreement at Champs Field with the Ministry of Environment, KIA Tigers, Superbin, and the Korea Recycling Resource Distribution Support Center to promote the 'Transparent PET Bottle Collection Project for Multi-use Facilities.'

According to the agreement, KIA Tigers will promote spectators to separately dispose of transparent PET bottles, Superbin will collect them and produce high-quality recycled raw materials, and Gwangju City, together with the Ministry of Environment, will support the practice of separate disposal to ensure the smooth progress of the collection project.

Transparent PET bottles are recycled into raw materials for new PET bottles or used as materials for clothing or food containers. The city expects that about 370,000 transparent PET bottles annually will be recycled into high-quality recycled raw materials such as T-shirt production.

Gwangju City is taking the lead in creating a resource-circulating city by implementing a resource circulation plan to reduce waste at the source, expand recycling and reuse, including this transparent PET bottle collection project, and installing resource recovery facilities in accordance with the ban on direct landfill of combustible household waste starting in 2030.

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