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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...

The Use of Disposable Products (ECOYA)

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Problems with Disposable Products Using disposable products will result in a waste of resources. Most of the raw materials used to produce products are not all buried indefinitely. So we have to save as many of these resources as possible, but if we use a lot of disposable products, we'll waste our resources by using resources that we don't need to use.  If disposable products are used, that's how much waste is generated. It takes a lot of money and energy to dispose of these wastes, and it also causes a lot of environmental pollution. In particular, disposable products use a lot of raw materials wrapped in plastic rather than eco-friendly materials, which in particular cost a lot of energy and money to process, and pollutants also occur in the process. Also, disposable products have a lower rate of treatment than products that are generally used for a long time because of their convenience. (You can feel that most of the garbage on the street is easy to carry, such...

The Uncomfortable Relationship Between Climate Change and Viruses

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We need to preserve bat habitats so we can stop the spread of the virus.    We live in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution but at the same time in the age of Guns, Germs, and Steels preached by Jared Diamonds. The spread and spread of a virus called Corona19 asks us. What era do we live in now?    Human history has a repetitive and familiar flow. It may be because we are human beings with 23 pairs of chromosomes. In addition to this, chasing the spread of viral diseases such as Nipah, SARS, Ebola, and MERS in the past will make the only bats among mammals capable of flying.    Bats have been with viruses for a long time. Fast-speed flapping for flight increases metabolism and body temperature. Bats consume three to five times more energy than land mammals of the same size because of their wings. This process produces harmful oxygen and cell damage, which generally causes inflammation in mammals. Excessive inflammatory reactions can cause disease ...