Korea Post shows a lot of bottle!

Postal workers in Korea have been getting used to their new uniforms – made from recycled drinking bottles. Korea Post has confirmed that its mail carriers are now wearing clothes made from PET bottle recycled fibre.

The PET fibre has gone through a refining process after slicing recycled PET bottles into tiny pieces. Up to 11 recycled PET bottles are used for a uniform, and approximately 389,000 PET are being used to manufacture 35,000 uniforms.

The new uniforms will avoid the environment having to absorb 22,000 kilograms worth of carbon dioxide from disused materials.

This is the first time in six years that the uniforms at Korea Post have been modified.

The move forms part of Korea Post’s Green Post 2020 programme which promotes the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from post offices and postal vehicles.

Min Namgung, president of Korea Post said: “It is quite encouraging to hear that 17,000 postmen nationwide are wearing eco-friendly uniforms. [They] are the so-called eco messengers who naturally join the green campaign to advertise and promote Green Growth, while they are delivering mail on a daily basis.”

As well as the new uniforms, the postal authority in Korea has introduced high efficient heating and cooling system and LED lighting to post offices. As for environmental-friendly postal vehicles, mail delivery vehicles have been changed using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG). This is designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20% until 2020.

“Korea Post plans to distribute other uniforms made of eco friendly fabrics” Namgung added.