Cha Woo-cheol, CEO of Lotte GRS, Joins the 'Single-Use Item Zero Challenge'

Cha Woo-chul, CEO of Lotte GRS, announced on the 14th that he has joined the 'Single-Use Product Zero Challenge' to promote the practice of eco-friendly management and spread the message to reduce the usage rate of single-use products.

Cha Woo-chul, CEO of Lotte GRS (photo), participated in the eco-friendly campaign 'Single-Use Items Zero Challenge.' [Photo by Lotte GRS]

The Single-Use Product Zero Challenge is a relay campaign by the Ministry of Environment aimed at reducing the use of single-use products in daily life to protect the environment.

CEO Cha was nominated by No Jun-hyung, CEO of Lotte Data Communication Company, on the 31st of last month, and he subsequently nominated Kim Tae-hong, CEO of Hotel Lotte, and Kim Chan-ho, CEO of CJ Foodville, as the next relay participants.

Through this challenge, Lotte GRS plans to make continuous efforts to achieve a 50% usage rate of eco-friendly and recycled packaging materials.

In fact, Lotte GRS has introduced and operates eco-friendly uniforms produced through collaboration with Lotte Chemical’s PET bottle recycling in all directly managed stores such as Lotteria, Angel-in-us, and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, contributing to the reduction of single-use products and waste reduction through resource circulation.

Additionally, to reduce the use of waste PET bottles, in 2021, they introduced and operated R-PET (physically recycled plastic material cups) by removing brand logos from the surface of ice drink cups and embossing logos to make them 100% recyclable. Since last year, they have also been working to reduce single-use product usage by introducing eco-friendly packaging materials such as paper straws and wooden cutlery.

With continuous eco-friendly policy development, they were awarded the National Medal of Camellia at the '2021 Excellent Business Operators for Packaging and Single-Use Product Reduction' contest hosted by the Ministry of Environment in 2021.

CEO Cha said, “Along with eco-friendly management policies, we will encourage employees to continue eco-friendly activities within the company by conveying the message of this Single-Use Product Zero Challenge.”