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Excessive Packaging (ECOYA) And the current situation in Korea

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These days, we do self-quarantine and do a lot of internet shopping instead of going outside. Use apps like Amazon, eBay, Taobao, and Coupang to buy and ship things home. Of course, this is a really good alternative. Internet shopping, which has the advantage of living in a global disaster such as a disaster movie, not meeting people as much as possible, not having a conversation, and being able to get necessary things so easily, has saved many people. But if the goods are delivered to my house like this, the goods come in the box. When you open the box, there is a supplement. Of course, I understand. I put it in to deliver the goods safely, but sometimes I think it's too much. I once delivered Clam chowder soup from the United States. But each of the five came from different boxes with supplements that were at least five times larger than their own size. In China, they ordered 10 flower pots (really small ones). It was delivered to our school in huge styrofoam. I thought I was goi...

Re-discovery of 99.8% of Discarded Coffee Grounds

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   It is 99.8 percent to 0.2 percent. It is not the ratio of working-class people to rich people. It's not even a chance to win a school prize. The former is used for coffee extractions from coffee beans and then thrown away, and the latter is the amount purely used for coffee extractions. Of the coffee beans, 99.8 percent are released as waste, with only 0.2 percent being used for coffee. Specifically, about 14 grams of coffee beans are needed to make a cup of Americano, but only 0.2 percent of coffee beans are used to extract coffee. The remaining 99.8 percent will be coffee grounds. Like the heyday of coffee, South Korea's coffee market surpassed 10 trillion won for the first time last year. In other words, the entire nation drank 26.5 billion cups of coffee a year (the population of Korea is 50 million). However, all the coffee scraps that occurred after the coffee was made were put in the standard plastic garbage bag. This is because coffee grounds have been classi...