Rsquare Design, a company specializing in architecture and interior, said on the 28th that it fully recycled all waste generated at about 100 sites last year. The amount of carbon reduced totaled 1,090 tons (t) CO₂. That is equivalent to planting about 170,000 30-year-old mature pine trees. In terms of area, it is more than enough to cover the entire Yeouido Park (0.23 ㎢) with dense forest more than four times, or about the size of 1.0 ㎢, which is roughly 140 international-standard soccer fields combined.
Rsquare Design, through strategic collaboration with "Jiguhada," a digital waste management platform and a subsidiary of energy innovation corporations Cheonil Energy, processed 1,200 t of construction waste generated from January to December last year entirely through recycling and solid refuse fuel (SRF) methods.
Rsquare Design linked Jiguhada's digital platform with Rsquare Design's system to store the entire process from waste discharge to final treatment as data. This visualized the opaque waste disposal routes, a chronic problem in the existing interior market. Waste treatment expense was reduced by an average of 5% compared with before.
Rsquare Design said, "We will continue to accelerate innovation in the opaque waste market through transparent electronic transfer statements and data tracking, and imprint a unique governance structure in the market that helps partner companies achieve carbon neutrality."