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Mitigating Hazards by Better Designing a Recycling Program: Lessons Learned from South Korea

  • Kim, Kyung Woo;Song, Minsun
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.17-36
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    • 2015
  • As an effort of mitigating hazards, pro-environmental programs have been vigorously activated with regard to solid waste recycling. It is beneficial for both the environment and resource saving, but implementation and enforcement are hard to achieve voluntarily. The South Korean Government first implemented the Deposit Refund System (DRS) and later the Extended Producer Responsibility Program (EPR) to reduce waste and encourage recycling in South Korea. Un-der the DRS, producers would pay for recycling the wastes of the products. The government then repealed the DRS and implemented the EPR program. Under this program, the producers recycle as much as the Ministry of Environment determines or pay a penalty for an excessive amount of the waste. In the broader perspective of disaster management, such policy programs can mitigate environmental hazards. This paper compares those two programs that facilitated the level of recycling, focusing on how such programs regulate producers and how they were operated from the perspective of implementation and enforcement.

The Structure and Standardization of Mold Base for Recycling (재활용을 위한 몰드베이스 구조 및 표준화)

  • 제덕근;한성렬;송준엽;정영득
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.225-231
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    • 2003
  • The injection molding is a traditional manufacturing method that can make plastic parts by just one time in mold. Therefore, the injection molding has become one of a manufacturing method, which is widely applied in a producing of plastic products. Nowadays, to use of plastic parts has increased and plastic product-model using term has been shorten. By these reasons, using term of a injection mold has fast been reduced. These produced molds will be disused and leaved in a storage after a regular term to use it. These leaved molds are sometime sold as scrap iron. But, these molds have lots parts for recycling except special parts for example, cavities, cores and eject pins, etc. In this research, we investigated when the cavity and core of in injection mold would be changed, the injection mold could be recycled. We suggested the structures and standardizations for recycling of a moldbase. We also developed a program in which can be used when the recycling moldbase design in the Auto-CAD with the recycling standards. We called this program as the Recy-Mold. For the availability of the program and moldbase structure fur the recycling standards, we experimented a used mold for automobile lens, which was remanufactured by the recycling standard. The results of this test showed feasibility for the recycling mold.

Economic and Environmental Effect Analysis of Rhodium Recycling System (로듐 재자원화의 경제적 및 환경적 효과 분석)

  • Seong You Lee;Kayoung Shin;Doo Hwan Kim;Yong Woo Hwang;Hong-Yoon Kang;Sung Min Hong;Da-Yeon Kim
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.45-56
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    • 2023
  • This study analyzed the economic and environmental effect of recycling rhodium used in the non-catalytic field. As an analysis methodology, economic effect analysis applied cost-benefit analysis and resource-saving effect analysis and the environmental effect analysis applied life cycle assessment (LCA). The results show that from an economic point of view, the cost-benefit ratio was 1.28, which was feasible, and the cost reduction was 237,000 won based on 1 g of rhodium recycled and the amount of rhodium recycled was 7.17 billion won in 2025. As for the environmental effect, the greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions were compared between the case of recycling based on rhodium 1 kg and the case of overseas sales. The calculation results show that based on rhodium 1 kg, greenhouse gas emissions were reduced by 99.8%, from 65 kg CO2eq./kg-Rh when recycling to 28,800 kg CO2eq. when sold overseas. The results obtained from this study could suggest that rhodium recycling is necessary in Korea where resources are scarce by analyzing the economic and environmental effect of recycling rhodium used in the non-catalytic field.

A Comparison of Consumer Characteristics between high and low Group in Recycling Behavior (재활용 행동 집단별 소비자특성과 영향요인에 관한 비교연구)

  • 유두련
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.53-67
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to examine consumer characteristics according to the recycling behavior and analyze the affected variables on recycling behavior. For the empirical analysis, the data was collected 585 consumers from May 14 to June 8,2001. The statistical methods for this study were descriptive statistics, t-tests, cross tables, ANOVA and multiple regression analysis using SPSS PC program. The major findings of this study were as follows: 1. Convenience was important variables to explain the recycling behavior of household trash between two groups, but extrinsic incentives of rewards for undertaking the behavior was not significant. 2. Intrinsic motivation like as perceived consumer difficulties(PCD), perceived consumer effectiveness(PCE), recycling altitude, and ethic was significant variables to compare two groups. 3. Recycling knowledge was important to explain the recycling behavior, but no impact on recycling behavior. 4. Except age, all of socially demographic variables were significant to compare the recycling behavior of two groups. 5. Recycling attitude and convenience had influence on recycling behavior. Especially, ethic had influence on low level recycling behavior of consumer group.

The Impacts of Social Norms and Personal Ethics on Recycling Behavior (재활용행동에 관한 연구 : 규범적 접근을 중심으로)

  • 유두련;김정희;박영미
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.69-79
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of social norms and personal ethics on recycling behavior. For this purpose, survey data from four hundred and fifty seven individuals were collected and analyzed using an SPSS program. The major findings were as follows: First, social norms had a positive impact on personal ethics and recycling behavior. Second, personal ethics significantly affected recycling behavior. Third, awareness of the consequences of recycling behavior (AC) and ascription of responsibility for environmental problems(AR) did not significantly translate personal ethics into actual recycling behavior. Fourth, ascription of responsibility for environmental problems(AR) and awareness of consequences of recycling behavior(AC) affected recycling behavior. These results suggest that in order to encourage recycling behavior, it is necessary to inform and educate the public so as to enhance social norms and personal ethics.

Mold Base Structure and Standardization for Recycling (몰드베이스의 재활용을 위한 구조 및 규격화)

  • 정영득;송준엽;한성렬;제덕근
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.373-376
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    • 2000
  • Recently, the life cycle of products is rapidly shortened and then the W s a l of the used mold applied in development of a product is a difficult things. In this study, we proposed a feasibility of the recycling mold base by analyzing of the existing standard mold base. And we developed a D/B program to promote the mold design capability with CAD. Also, we confirmed the possibility of recycling mold base by testing of a used automobile lamp mold.

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Algorithm for Simulation Program to Revitalization Site-Recycling (건설폐기물 재활용 활성화를 위한 시뮬레이션 프로그램 알고리즘 개발)

  • An, Yang-Jin;Lee, Jae-Sung;Lee, Kyoung-Hee;Bae, Kee-Sun;Jung, Jong-Suk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.712-715
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    • 2008
  • The construction wastes rapidly increase because of redevelopment, the development of new urbanization of large-scale land development, the expansion of social infrastructure. As one of the ways to recycle construction waste to be recycled directly. This case, recycling of materials uses up most of recycled aggregate can be secured reliably. As a result, a decrease in the amount of materials brought in or taken out of the site, the cost of transportation, carbon dioxide emission, and traffic can be reduced. Economic, social and environmental effects can be expected. Therefore, this study of the construction waste "Site-Recycling" to enable the construction waste from the occurrence of "site-recycling" that can be processed in batches to apply the "Site-Recycling Simulation Program" is to develop the algorithms.

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A Study on Recalculation of the Long-Term Recycling Rate of New EPR Target Items (EPR 신규 대상품목의 장기 재활용목표율 재산정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hee-Nahm;Choi, Yoon-Jeong
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.193-199
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    • 2011
  • In the past annual recycling obligation rate calculation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system, it was difficult to operate the system efficiently, because responsible producers passively participated in the scheme only bent on achieving annual obligation without long-term plan. Thus, a new scheme of long-term recycling obligation rate began to be established every five year from 2008 in order to give the basis for the notice of annual specific operation standard and recycling obligation, thereby helping responsible producers to make a preparation with a plan and giving expectation of active operation of the scheme. However, in the operation of long-term recycling target program, while the development of prediction models and the evaluation for existing items has been conducted in various ways, applications for a new target items and the evaluation are quite insufficient. Therefore, in this study, problems in implementing long-term recycling goal of new target items will be examined, and more objective and rational long-term recycling rate calculation and the operation standard will be proposed. Thus, the long-term recycling target will play a role as a pacemaker to steadily improve the recycling performance of target items, and responsible producers will be expected to increase the achievement with the realistic capacity.