Summary Draft 2: Introducing Newoil
The article “Parliament: S'pore looks to create Newoil by transforming waste plastic into alternative fuel” by Liu (2020) highlights Singapore’s approach to manage the rising amount of waste generated every year and discusses on how recycling can help the nation to move closer to a zero-waste nation and a low-carbon economy. Liu states that packaging waste is one of the biggest waste streams in Singapore, such that National Environment Agency (NEA) will start a deposit refund scheme to encourage recycling. Usually, plastic can be recycled by mechanical and chemical recycling. The amount of packaging used per year should be recorded by the producers and retailers for the sake of the only landfill. Besides plastic waste, Liu claims that there will be three new facilities to process more than 50,000 tonnes of e-waste annually. Liu highlights the Resource Sustainability Act will be launched that requires food enterprises to segregate the waste. NEA also introduces Newsand, which is inc...