In a small office in central Seoul, a group of people surround a piece of machinery with buckets filled with shredded plastic."This is a key ring that we made by upcycling plastic bottle caps," said Yona Kim, project manager at the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement, referring to the process in which scrap plastic is used to make something of higher value than the original discarded item.A few minutes later, melted plastic was squeezed out of the machine into various types of mold. With a few delicate adjustments by the workers, out came key rings as well as soap savers and tube s…READ FULL ARTICLE
