Excluding rice hull and rice bran waste in South Korea

The process for recognizing the recycling resources of rice husks and rice bran will be greatly reduced and the available uses will be expanded. The Ministry of Environment recently announced that it has prepared a plan to revitalize the recognition of recyclable resources of rice hull and rice bran with this content and started to apply it from the 1st. Recognition of recycled resources is a system that recognizes materials that are less harmful and have high utilization value as resources as recycled resources and excludes them from waste regulations. Rice hulls and rice bran are agricultural by-products produced when rice is milled at the RPC. About 800,000 tons of rice husk and 400,000 tons of rice bran are generated annually. Since it can be recycled as barn litter, feed, and fertilizer, it is in high demand in the agricultural field. However, there have been constant criticisms that rice hulls and rice bran are being managed as wastes in accordance with the ...