Transforming waste into useful products

Participants with the materials for their natural, renewable inkjet for printers that won first place in the higher education institution category of the 2016 Creating New Out of Old competition organised by DOE. — Photos: ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star

KUCHING: Natural, renewable inkjet for printers made out of used cooking oil has won Polytechnic Kuching first place in a recycling competition here.

True to the idiom “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, the Petrochemical Engineering Department students pocketed RM700 for their innovation and ingenuity, edging 14 other groups in the higher education institutions category of the 2016 “Creating New Out Of Old” competition.