Trash in Treasure
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Category:
Reduce
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Founder:
EcoTech
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Time:
2020 - 2023
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Funded project/grant:
EPPIC 2020 (Ending Plastic Pollution Innovation Challenge 2020)
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Phase:
3 phase: Pilot (2020-2021), Mass production (2022 - 2023) and B&B selling (2023)
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Co-founder:
Dr. Duong Hai Minh CEO of EcoTech (based in Singapore) mpedhm@nus.edu.sg
Brief Innovation
EcoTech has developed a groundbreaking technology that turns many kinds of plastic waste into novel, high-value aerogel
materials for billion-dollar markets, such as heat and sound
insulation, high-temperature garments and oil spill clean up.
A pilot has been launched in Singapore with the capacity to
manufacture 250,000 m2 per year of aerogels from various
wastes, including plastic, paper, textiles, rubber and agricultural
waste).