The Ministry of Science and ICT's Postal Service said on Monday it will run a campaign through July to promote resource circulation for composite-material products that are difficult to recycle.

The campaign with TerraCycle was set up to spread a culture of resource circulation and to boost post office return logistics and post office mobile banking (Itda Banking). Anyone can take part by returning items made of composite materials that are difficult to recycle, including coffee capsules, cosmetic containers and water filters.

It will offer various benefits to participating customers. An online participation event running through July 31 will provide Naver Pay gift certificates worth 20,000 won to new Itda Banking sign-ups among customers who apply for door-to-door collection of composite-material containers on the TerraCycle website. Eligible items cover products from 7 brands, including Kanu coffee capsules, Skin1004, L'Occitane, Rom&nd, Bark, Brita and Yohemity.

To mark Environment Month, it will also run an offline verification event through next month 30. It will provide coffee coupons worth 10,000 won to participants who return composite-material containers from Kanu coffee capsules, Skin1004 or Doze Lab at a post office counter or an Eco mailbox and post a verification photo or video on social media.

Women must tag TerraCycle's official account in the post. The event will end early once the number of participants is checked on a weekly basis and reaches the first 100 people.

Park In-hwan (박인환), head of the Postal Service, said the campaign is an eco-friendly public service model that uses the post office's return logistics infrastructure. He said it will continue to work with various institutions to realise environmental and social value together.