NUS students come up with recycling method for medicine strips

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.