{"id":4738,"date":"2020-02-13T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/sk-hynix-became-the-first-korean-company-to-obtain-zero-waste-to-landfill-validation-for-all-production-sites\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:03:24","slug":"sk-hynix-became-the-first-korean-company-to-obtain-zero-waste-to-landfill-validation-for-all-production-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/sk-hynix-became-the-first-korean-company-to-obtain-zero-waste-to-landfill-validation-for-all-production-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"SK hynix Became the First Korean Company to Obtain Zero Waste to Landfill Validation for All Production Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SK hynix recently became the first Korean company to obtain \u201cZero Waste to Landfill Validation\u201d for all of its production sites across the world. SK hynix\u2019s Chongqing production site received the validation in December 2019, signaling all four of its production sites, including Icheon and Cheongju in Korea, and Wuxi and Chongqing in China, now hold the validation.<\/p>\n<p>This validation is certified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the first US safety standard certification organization, after an in-depth investigation to measure recycling rates by deducting a worksite\u2019s non-recyclable waste weight from its total weight of waste generated annually. UL validates companies displaying excellent recycling rates, then categorizes them into three different grades to match their performance: Platinum (100%), Gold (95-99%), and Silver (90-94%). According to the data from 2018, SK hynix recorded waste recycling rates of 93% in Icheon, 94% in Cheongju, 96% in Wuxi, and 91% in Chongqing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \uc774\ubbf8\uc9c0 \uc0ac\uc774\uc988 \uc9c0\uc815\ud574\uc11c \uc5c5\ub85c\ub4dc --><\/p>\n<p class=\"img_area\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4330 aligncenter\" style=\"width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/d18r0a86za96sg.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/27195251\/SK_hynix_Obtained_Zero_Waste_To_Landfill_validation.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in October 2018, SK hynix announced its \u201c2022 ECO Vision\u201d with both medium and long-term goals to create social value through eco-friendly semiconductor manufacturing plants management. Accordingly, SK hynix plans to minimize waste emission and maximize resource recycling.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \uc774\ubbf8\uc9c0 \uc0ac\uc774\uc988 \uc9c0\uc815\ud574\uc11c \uc5c5\ub85c\ub4dc --><\/p>\n<p class=\"img_area\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4330 aligncenter\" style=\"width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/d18r0a86za96sg.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/27195257\/SK_hynix_Eco-friendly_Efforts.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SK hynix recently became the first Korean company to obtain \u201cZero Waste to Landfill Validation\u201d for all of its production sites across the world. SK hynix\u2019s Chongqing production site received the validation in December 2019, signaling all four of its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":4735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_migrated_source_id":4580,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[139,135,49,138],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-story","tag-2022ecovision","tag-socialvalue","tag-sv","tag-zerowastetolandfillvalidation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11994,"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions\/11994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}