A made-in-Singapore solution to the world's plastic waste problem
NUS scientists have found a way to turn plastic bottles and other wastes into 'one of the most promising materials in the 21st century'.
By Derrick A Paulo
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Foong Mun Loh
waste of time and money......how many times they came up with some new inventions.......but the products were never brought to the market.....
Tayir Vadai
Prob not brought to the market cuz there was not enough money to be made. Esp in SG. Its always about commerce.
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Ricky Lim
Hai Duong - Wish you and all your fellow research mates all the best and success in turning it into a big business.
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Waileng Petersen
Hai Duong we wish you and your team a lot of success and keep going. The world needs spirit like yours.
Peter Peter
The problem is recycling PET in the first place, not the lack of uses for PET once it has been recycled. Countries like Switzerland already do this very efficiently. So contrary to the title, this invention provides another use for recycled PET, does not solve the plastic waste problem. For the plastic waste problem to be solved, PET needs to be recycled first.
Hai Duong
Hi Peter. At the end use, we can recycle the PET aerogel into the fiber abd make another another batch. We do not throw back any wate back to the environment. In the worst case, PET fibers can be degradable up to 50X faster than the initial plastic bottlw waste. Good and common question we always have :)
Masa Soh Mengming
Hai Duong Oh! You are the professor who came up with the product? Congratulations! Where can I learn more and be updated?
Daniel Choo
@Hai Duong Congrats and send my congratulations to the team for their hard work. Can't wait to see what this will become
Tommie Vale
Now with this new recycling technology, soon every country will be selling their used plastics for profit and plastics have become a blessing to the earth.
This is the answer to plastics hater.
This is the answer to plastics hater.
Breeke Lo
Agree with another comment that the title is somewhat making an inaccurate claim. To call it a solution, I was expecting a large scale reduction in PET waste, that can be easily and cheaply applied worldwide outside of sophisticated labs and specialists.
A good development no less. But I still think the simplest reuse of PET bottles is where third world countries use them as-is for building walls?
A good development no less. But I still think the simplest reuse of PET bottles is where third world countries use them as-is for building walls?
Gloria Rachel
No matter what, it's great to have this new use to the plastic waste that's mounting up... Best thing is, no waste is being thrown back to the environment... Well done... Good job...
Breeke Lo
Hai Duong I understand that. But that's a business win, not an environmental win - the net effect to the amount of PET, whether in bottle form or aerogel form, is a flat zero?
Perhaps it'll be more apt to say you guys found a way to produce PET products without producing more PET waste?
Perhaps it'll be more apt to say you guys found a way to produce PET products without producing more PET waste?
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Valen Chen Tany
Wonderful news for our environment and all earthly creatures big or small....wtg congrats and a big thank you to our NUS scientists.
用李
Cool.
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Andrew Wang
Will such materials be useful for the linings of thin blankets ? Nice to buy one set if on sale.
Aaron Loy
So, question - once it's made into this form of aerogel, is it still recyclable 1. after the coatings are applies and 2. after they're used to absorb oils, etc?
Hai Duong
Yes :)
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Dave
There r at least 5 aerogel vendors in the world today n many would produce them from plastic bottles n discarded plastics. Many more countries would jump on the bandwagon legally or illegally obtained technology n sell them first commercially b4 SG. So the game is who gets there first ?
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