{
  "id": 12326565,
  "title": "SK Chemicals to turn discarded banners into new banner fabric",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/sk-chemicals-to-turn-discarded-banners-into-new-banner-fabric",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-06T07:32:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20261006/sk-chemicals-to-turn-discarded-banners-into-new-banner-fabric"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "SK Chemicals is launching a regional partnership network to recycle discarded banners into new banner fabric, addressing the growing waste problem in South Korea. The company has formed a consortium with four partners in various regions, aiming to establish a recycling system for the approximately 6,000 tons of discarded banners generated annually in the country. Currently, around 70 percent of these banners end up in landfills or are incinerated, with each targeted region producing over 1,000 metric tons of waste per year. SK Chemicals will employ its depolymerization technology to chemically break down plastic waste into molecular building blocks, which are then converted back into raw materials for producing new banner fabric.",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "SK Chemicals to turn discarded banners into new banner fabric",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/sk-chemicals-to-turn-discarded-banners-into-new-banner-fabric-12330038",
        "published": "2026-10-06T07:52:03.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}