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Business cards that are usually exchanged are useless after saving the contact information. The city of Incheon decided to create and use a soap business card that is eco-friendly and can also contribute to the prevention of Corona 19.
This is reporter Kim Ho-sun.
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first glance, it looks like an ordinary business card, but when it is used to wash hands, it melts and foams like soap.
It can be used like soap when washing hands by applying soap made with vegetable oil to water-soluble paper.
Existing business cards are made of mixed materials, so they cannot be recycled and must be incinerated. However, soap business cards can reduce environmental pollution by storing the marked information and using it for hand washing.
The city of Incheon decided to create and utilize this eco-friendly soap business card.
Incheon City, which is advocating an eco-friendly resource recycling policy to end the operation of the current metropolitan landfill site in 2025, and has come up with various measures to reduce waste, plans to replace the business cards of the mayor and other resource recycling practitioners with soap business cards.
[Park Namchun/Incheon Mayor: We tried to create an opportunity to look back on our daily lives that we easily use and discard by making business cards that are easily discarded and not recycled after use with eco-friendly paper soap.]
Incheon City applied for the event by the end of this month
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We will select 70 citizens to present soap business cards.
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The city of Incheon announced that as of the 19th, the accumulated charge of the local currency, Incheon e-eum, exceeded 5 trillion won.
Incheon eum was charged more than 1 trillion won this year alone, an increase of more than 1.7 times compared to the same period last year.
In addition, the number of subscribers to Incheon eum was 1.46 million, accounting for 89.7% of the economically active population in Incheon.