On the 10th, Woori Bank held a ceremony to deliver mask resource recycling products to support the underprivileged at its headquarters in Hoehyeon-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul in the presence of Bank President Lee Won-deok and Korea Social Welfare Center Association President Jeong Seong-gi.
Previously, since May, Woori Bank has been conducting the ‘Re-born of Hope’, a resource circulation campaign that has provided mask collection boxes in four main buildings of its headquarters. The collected masks go through a heat treatment process and are produced as recycled PP (polypropylene) chips, which are then used to manufacture resource recycling products.
The 1,000 reclining chairs donated to the Korea Social Welfare Center Association this time are resource recycling products produced with masks collected by Woori Bank executives and employees and recycled PP chips extracted from scrap fabrics generated during the mask production process. These goods are delivered to 1,000 households from the underprivileged through comprehensive social welfare centers affiliated with the Korea Social Welfare Center Association.
Woori Bank President Lee Won-deok said, “The first step to a circular economy is to create a resource circulation loop by giving new value to wasted waste resources. “he said.
Meanwhile, Woori Bank held a pop-up exhibition ‘Two Chairs’ with artist Kim Ha-neul, an environmental living designer, who is receiving attention for his work of upcycling a waste mask into a chair to encourage MZ generation customers to recycle resources and participate in the circular economy. ‘ will be held at LCDC, a cultural complex in Seongsu-dong, at the end of June.
By Jung Gong-ho, staff reporter ball@fortunekorea.co.kr
