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Foam packaging boxes: how to dispose of it in Korea

Remove food, ice packs and other packing materials and sort them separately.

Plastic packaging

How to dispose of it

  1. Remove food, ice packs and other packing materials and sort them separately.
  2. Remove tape, shipping labels and stickers, then clean food residue from the surface.
  3. Use the designated collection for clean foam packaging.

Before you put it out

  • Do not assume that laminated insulated boxes, construction foam or fruit-protection nets belong in the same stream.
  • Acceptance can depend on colour, coating and contamination. Where a collection point accepts only white packaging foam, follow that restriction.

Sources & local guidance

Prepared by Pixelone, the developer of Korea Recycle Guide. Follow your municipality and building's current instructions when they differ from this general guide.

Guide reviewed: . This is not the source dataset's update date.

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