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Australia, Indonesia Show Innovations to Tackle Plastic Waste
tries.
“The health of our oceans and wa-
terways is linked to our nations’ eco-
nomic growth and prosperity. Both
Indonesia and Australia are island na-
tions that share concerns about the
impact of marine plastic pollution,”
Williams said.

Amelia Fyfield, CSIRO Counsellor and
ASEAN Director, also said that the
Demo Day formed part of a larger,
holistic approach to tackling plastic
waste in the region.
“Supporting innovators to translate
ustralia’s National Science Agen- Indonesia, a partnership between deep tech into real-world solutions
Acy or CSIRO holds Demo Day, Australia’s CSIRO and Indonesia’s is critical in solving this global issue,
exhibiting new innovations to tackle Ministry of Education, Culture, Re- so it’s exciting to work alongside our
plastic waste, in Jimbaran of Bali, No- search, and Technology, as well as partners to train the next generation
vember 3, 2022. Demo Day is a part Indonesia’s National Plastics Action of Indonesia’s and Australia’s emerg-
of the Road to G20 Summit in Bali. Partnership (NPAP). ing changemakers,” Fyfield said.
The innovations ranging from plastic- Penny Williams PSM, Australian Am- According to Fyfield, plastic waste is
free agricultural solutions to technol- bassador to Indonesia, said the event a shared problem as it knows no bor-
ogy that transforms the livelihoods of is part of ongoing collaborative efforts ders. Thus she hoped Indonesia and
Indonesian waste pickers are intro- to support innovations so as to solve Australia could find long-term solu-
duced by the Plastics Innovation Hub environmental issues in the two coun- tions.

MTL, IISc Bengaluru Collaborate To Develop 'Innovative & Sustainable' Plas-
tic Packaging Solutions

he primary aim of this MoU is to devise a recyclable elastomeric mate- Excellence for recycling and upcycling
Treplace a variety of non-recycla- rial for all plastic pumps/triggers. They thermoplastics. It is utilised in a broad
ble packaging materials with recycla- will also collaborate to strengthen the spectrum of rigid plastic packaging in
ble monolayer materials, which would caps of Polyethylene Terephthalate daily life, ranging from cleaning prod-
assist in making transport affordable (PET) bottles, which are made of 100 ucts such as washing tablets to soft
and decrease breakage and damage. per cent recyclable plastic. drink bottles.
A Memorandum of Understanding Creating Plastic Packaging Solutions What Can All Be Expected From This
(MoU) has been signed between In- MLT, the rigid plastic packaging solu- Collaboration?
dia's largest rigid plastic packaging tions provider, announced on Tuesday Thimmaiah Napanda, the managing
company -- Manjushree Technopack that it had signed an MoU with the director (MD) and chief executive
Ltd (MTL), and the country's top- Bengaluru-based IISc to develop "in- officer (CEO) of MTL, said, "This is
ranked university -- Indian Institute of novative and sustainable" plastic pack- a significant development which will
Science (IISc), Bengaluru, to develop aging solutions, reported NDTV. enable us to explore opportunities in
solutions to change garbage into plas- existing technologies developed by
tic packaging that enables repeated According to a statement released by IISc in the polymer segment."
recycling of products. MTL, as part of the MoU, the educa-
tion institute will set up a Centre of
The associations will work together to

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