Corporate citizenship
goes
upcycling

In 2021, Samsung Semiconductor carried out the Upcycling Campaign, upcycling single-use plastic waste generated from on-site cafeterias and the local communities and turning them into pencil cases and jump ropes which were donated to local children’s centers.
The campaign was held from June 3 to June 11 to celebrate World Environment Day.
Twelve Samsung Foundry teams participated in the campaign’s first season and approximately 1,000 single-use plastic items were turned into felt pencil cases and beaded jump ropes.

The disposable plastic cup lids and plastic yogurt cups were turned into pencil cases and plastic utensils became material for beaded jump ropes. These meaningful presents, created as a result of the first Uplcycling Campaign, were given to 378 children at 14 centers throughout Yongin.

In August 2021, science lab kits were donated to the children at All Together Care Center. This project was led by Happy Whale, a volunteer group of 8 employees on Foundry Quality & Reliability Team. They wanted to help children who had limited access to learning resources during the COVID-19 pandemic and to help them grow academically. They came up with the idea of upcycling science kits that had been used for the Samsung Semiconductor Science Academy, so children in need could learn about semiconductors at home. The kits included material and how-to videos to make wafer-shaped clocks and light detector circuit timer sensor boards.