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Recycling active in DPRK

Date: 21/11/2020 | Source: Voice of Korea (EN) | Read original version at source

Recycling is active in the sector of light industry.

The Pyongyang Rayon Yarn Factory has established a process for producing rayon yarn recycled with waste yarn. It is producing a great amount of recycled rayon yarn with waste yarn from textile mills across the country and sending it to knitwear factories. Textile mills across the country including the Pyongyang

Kim Jong Suk

Textile Mill and the Sinuiju Textile Mill have established production processes for recycling waste cotton in a short span of time to produce cotton wool and thread.

A number of factories in the sector of footwear industry including the Sinuiju Footwear Factory and the Wonsan Leather Shoes Factory are actively producing shoes with waste plastic and rubber. The Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory has produced a lot of cosmetic cases through recycling of waste vinyl.

The Hamhung Disabled Soldiers' Essential Plastic Goods Factory and other similar units under the Daily Necessities Industrial Bureau are also directing efforts to recycling to fully provide raw materials and produce more goods such as raincoat.

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