LG Electronics said on the 21st that it distributed for free a resource-circulation education book for children and teenagers, "Goodbye, we'll meet again!: The story of resource circulation for electronic products," produced in cooperation with the Korea Environment Corporation (K-eco) and E-Circulation Governance.
LG Electronics said it donated the books to institutions related to the environment and education across the country, including the Best Shop flagship store, special schools in Seoul and Incheon, metropolitan environmental education centers, and outstanding schools for environmental education, with a total of 2,000 copies.
The book uses a storytelling format to explain the functions and operating principles of various home appliances used in everyday places like homes and schools, as well as safe and convenient ways to use them.
In particular, beyond large appliances such as refrigerators and TVs, it covers in detail the disposal methods and procedures for small and mid-sized appliances such as handheld fans and rice cookers, helping children and teenagers learn the different disposal methods by product and practice resource circulation in daily life.
In addition, on the 17th, LG Electronics visited Yerimwon, a residential facility for people with intellectual disabilities located in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, and donated the resource-circulation education book and 15 units of the "LG CordZero AI Objet Collection A9" purchased with funds raised through the first round of this year's "Battery Turn" campaign.
The "Battery Turn" campaign collects end-of-life batteries from LG Electronics vacuums and other discarded parts to recover waste resources, while offering participating customers discounts when purchasing new parts. It is meaningful in that it collects and dismantles non-reusable end-of-life batteries to extract rare metals with limited global reserves and recycles them.
Since 2022, LG Electronics has conducted the "Battery Turn" campaign twice a year in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment, the Korea Environment Corporation (K-eco), and E-Circulation Governance, and over the past four years, more than 140,000 customers have participated, accumulating about 108 tons of end-of-life batteries. The total number of collected batteries exceeded 240,000, and the rare metals extracted through this amounted to more than 9.6 tons.
The second round of this year's campaign will run starting in Oct. Customers who wish to participate can return end-of-life batteries to LG Electronics service centers nationwide. Customers who find it difficult to visit an LG Electronics service center can apply in advance at the online brand shop and then return them to a nearby waste appliance collection box.
Jeong Gi-uk, head of the vacuum cleaner business at LG Electronics, said, "We created the resource-circulation education book to help everyone learn the proper disposal methods for home appliances and join resource circulation," adding, "We will prepare activities that accompany customers throughout the product life cycle from development and use to disposal and resource circulation."