[Digital Today reporter Jin-ho Lee] Korea Post is teaming up with Nespresso to expand collection of used coffee capsules. It will provide vouchers to customers who return capsules through post offices or eco mailboxes.

The Postal Service of the Ministry of Science and ICT said on Saturday it will run a coffee capsule resource circulation promotion event with Nespresso from Aug. 31 through November.

The event will be run in 2 ways: QR verification and Instagram verification. For the QR verification event, customers put used coffee capsules in a Nespresso recycling bag, return them to a mailbox or eco mailbox, and then verify by scanning an attached QR code. The first round runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 30 and the second from Oct. 12 to Nov. 12. About 1,000 people will be selected by drawing for each round to receive a 10,000 won Post Office Shopping voucher.

It will run a "capsule recycling week" in the first week of every month. If customers post a verification photo of returning coffee capsules at a post office or eco mailbox on their personal Instagram accounts with a designated account and hashtag, about 30 people will be selected by drawing for each round to receive a 20,000 won Post Office Shopping voucher.

Korea Post is expanding its resource circulation programme to make it easier to dispose of items requiring collection, including coffee capsules, expired medicines, plastic bottles, aluminium cans and mixed-material containers. This year it introduced about 1,100 additional eco mailboxes nationwide. Eco mailboxes can be used 24 hours a day regardless of post office operating hours.

Korea Post chief In-hwan Park (박인환) said it had set up a campaign to help people easily join resource circulation in their daily lives by using the nationwide post office network. He said it would continue to work with various companies to realise the value of resource circulation.