No colour, no PVC: South Korea bans hard-to-recycle plastic materials for F&B packaging

By Pearly Neo

03-Mar-2020 - Last updated on 03-Mar-2020 at 02:16 GMT

South Korea has enforced regulations banning the usage of plastic materials that are difficult to recycle such as PVC and coloured PET bottles for the packaging of food and beverage items.

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