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Turning washed-up plastic trash into valuable resource
NTU team's conversion tech could help make plastic recycling a profitable business
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In 2019, about 930,000 tonnes of plastic waste were generated in Singapore, with only 37,000 tonnes recycled.
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Vanessa Liu
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Plastic bottles, takeaway containers and grocery bags. Each year, tonnes of such plastic waste find their way onto the shores of Singapore, and there are few satisfactory ways of recycling them.
Now scientists here say that such trash can be turned more effectively into treasure.
