NUS students come up with recycling method for medicine strips

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Sunday, 21 Aug 2022
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Su Yee Shien (left) and Sophia Ding Ning Ke holding medical blister packaging and recovered aluminium and plastic polymer pieces. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Once the last pill is taken, a patient or nurse will - without giving it a second thought - discard the medicine strip, which is made of polluting plastic and sought-after aluminium.

Medicine strips - formally known as pharmaceutical blister packaging - cannot be recycled because they are made of plastic and aluminium heat-sealed together with a type of glue.

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NUS students come up with recycling method for medicine strips