[H.eco Tech Festa 2026] KARI extracts value from battery wastewater

When much of the world still treats environmental compliance as a cost center, Yang Hee-gyoung, CEO of KARI Corp., a specialist in resource recovery from high-salinity wastewater, is making a more pragmatic case that pollution can pay. Speaking ahead of H.EcoTech Festa 2026, a forum on climate solutions and economic opportunity, Yang said converting environmental value into economic gain is now “a very realistic conversation.” In his view, that shift is most evident in industrial wastewater, lon

By The Korea Herald