Sustainable Materials: Plastics Made From Corn and Biomass

March 13, 2009
10:00 am	to	11:30 am

Venue: Lecture Theatre 5, National University of Singapore, Engineering
Drive 2, Engineering Faculty

Look around us and the merits and problems of petroleum plastics are abundant. Issues range from the extraction process from crude oil, the additives and stabilizers that are toxic, the incineration of plastics which releases more green house gases, the non-biodegradability and harm to wildlife and pollution.

But today, there exist technologies where plastics can be made from sustainable raw materials such as corn, sugarcane and biomass. They have the added advantage of being naturally biodegradable and recyclable. Singapore has its own start ups (Olive Green, Grenidea) investing in these materials. Products currently include food packaging, utensils, credit cards, crockery and clothing.

We can abolish plastic pollution and also move away from oil. Discuss about these issues at this seminar with Olive Green founder Aloysius Cheong and polymer expert and deputy director of A*STAR, Professor PK Wong.

For details and registration, visit http://energycarta-seminars.wikispaces.com/.

ecoWise First in Singapore to Successfully Register CDM Project with UNFCCC

This article is a media release from ecoWise Holdings Limited.

Singapore 30 December 2008 – Mainboard-listed ecoWise Holdings Limited (“ecoWise”), a Singapore-based integrated environmental solutions provider, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bee Joo Industries Pte Ltd (“Bee Joo Industries”), has become the first Singapore registered company to successfully register its first CDM project with UNFCCC.

Mr. Lee Thiam Seng, Chairman and CEO of ecoWise proudly remarked, “Last year, we were the first Singapore-based company to receive the Letter of Approval from the Designated National Authority for our CDM project. After a year of consistent effort, we are indeed very pleased to have our project registered with the UNFCCC.” Read more

Regional Bioenergy System for Increasing Renewable Energy Utilization and Mitigating Climate Change

August 28, 2008
10:30 am	to	12:00 pm

Speaker: Professor Yan Jinyue, Royal Institute of Technology and Mälardalen University, Sweden; Distinguished Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore

Venue: Engineering Auditorium, NUS Faculty of Engineering, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117576

This seminar is organised by the Energy Studies Institute (ESI) and discusses the current research in bioenergy technologies (biomass and biofuel). The speaker will also explain the development of a regional bioenergy system and current research on the “fossil free region” in Sweden. Details and registration at the ESI website.