Summary Draft 1 Introducing Newoil

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 The article “Parliament: Singapore looks to create Newoil by transforming waste plastic into alternative fuel” by Vanessa Liu (2020), illustrates Singapore’s current and future recycling plans.

Currently, the ‘Deposit Refund Scheme’ is one way to encourage citizens to recycle. Citizens that recycle get incentivized with money in return.

Newsand is another effort to curb and reduce landfill waste, by incinerating waste to produce useful construction materials. The promising project prompted NEA to build a commercial-scale facility to maximize its efficiency.

Coming 2024, the 'Resource Sustainability Act' requires large food and beverage establishments to separate their food waste for treatment helping to curb large amounts of food waste.

To push large companies to reduce their plastic waste, they are required to record their packaging data and submit it to NEA for vetting. The Semakau Landfill will receive less waste with this implementation.

To tackle the rising e-waste in Singapore, the country will have 3 e-waste recycling facilities fully operational by 2022, able to process more than 50,000 tonnes of e-waste annually.

Newoil, a potential replacement for fossil fuel petroleum, chemically turns plastic waste into pyrolysis oil. This helps move towards a low carbon economy.



Liu, V. (Ed.). (2020, March 4). Parliament: S'pore looks to create Newoil by transforming waste plastic into alternative fuel. THE STRAITS TIMES. 

Retrieved from https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/parliament-singapore-looks-to-transformwaste-plastic-into-oil

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