To Reduce Carbon Emissions
Pulmuone announced on Jan. 13 that it has begun to use eco-friendly salad containers made of Bio-PET, a naturally derived polyester resin. The company has developed the salad containers for the first time in Korea.
One person used 146 kilograms of plastic on average in Korea in 2020, far more than 100.2 kg in the United States, 72.6 kg in China, and 71.5 kg in Japan.
Pulmuone plans to use Bio-PET for containers of salad products, which are popular as healthy lunch boxes with salaried workers.
Bio-PET was developed by the Pulmuone Institute of Technology. It is an eco-friendly packaging material that contains extracts from sugar canes. While general PET is 100 percent made of petroleum extracts, sugar cane extracts account for 30 percent of Bio-PET. Bio-PET has the effect of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 20 percent in the entire process of manufacturing, distribution, and incineration. It is also 100 percent recyclable.
The eco-friendly salad container consists of a container for salad and an inner tray for a fork and dressing.
Pulmuone said that it will apply 100 percent recyclable packaging materials to all products produced and sold by Pulmuone by 2022 when announcing its management goal of "Global New DP5" in 2020. Pulmuone thoroughly implements eco-friendly packaging in accordance with its 3R Principle -- reducing plastic use, recyclable packaging, and removing chemicals from packaging materials.
Pulmuone is also using water-based and ethanol ink for 56 products to remove chemicals left in its packaging. These efforts saved the company about 410 tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2019.