The company said it held a ceremony on the 28th at its Geoje shipyard after receiving UL Solutions’ “Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWTL)” certification.
Attendees included Namgung Geum-seong, vice president and head of the shipyard, and Yoon Hye-jin, executive director of UL Solutions Korea, the company said.
ZWTL is an environmental certification awarded based on the share of a site’s waste that is recycled rather than sent to landfill, and is used globally to gauge corporate efforts in resource circulation.
Samsung Heavy Industries said shipbuilding has faced challenges in resource circulation because it generates a wide range of waste that can be difficult to process. It said it earned the certification after continuing to improve its waste-management system to increase recycling.
The company said it overhauled its sorting system by classifying all waste by type and characteristics under its own procedures. It also linked manual sorting to mechanical sorting to raise recovery rates for recyclable materials.
It said it further upgraded management by working with the environment office and the Korea Environment Corporation on technical cooperation and professional consulting, and by building a real-time monitoring system.
In March, Samsung Heavy Industries said it also became the first in the industry to receive “circular resource recognition” from the Nakdong River Basin Environmental Office for four types of nationally managed waste: slag, dust, waste wood and waste expanded synthetic resin (Styrofoam). The recognition is a government system that allows waste to be treated and, if it is not harmful to health or the environment and can be traded for a fee, to be recognized as a circular resource.
“ZWTL and circular resource recognition show the results of Samsung Heavy Industries’ efforts to recycle waste,” Namgung said. “We will further strengthen our resource-circulation system.”
* This article has been translated by AI.
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