A RESEARCH conducted at the University of Cape Town (UCT), in the field of Chemical Engineering, found that waste or obsolete products have the potential to be reused to make new products and remedies that can be useful in different ways.
That research was done by Dr. Carol Ngwenya, who was investigating and researching whether waste or products that have expired but have energy-giving elements, can be used to make new products, instead of just throwing them away and ending like that.
In the course of his research entitled “The Feasibility of Renewable Bioenergy Production From Carbohydrate-rich Waste Streams: Confectionery Waste As A Case Study”, he found that those products can be reused and are of great value.
“Different bodies of science and technology, including South Africa’s Waste RDI Roadmap, are constantly promoting the importance of using waste and obsolete products to serve us instead of rushing to throw them away.”
He said:“Waste with energy-giving ingredients that are always thrown away by industries, there is something good that can be done with it. Research is based on that because these products can be useful to society.”
He also disclosed that businessmen and scientific experts can use some of the presentations of his research to find solutions to make products that will be useful to society.
“Changing that waste and outdated products can help eliminate environmental pollution, and make it less polluting to society, and increase recycled products,” said Dr Ngwenya.
He said he hopes that the research he has done will greatly help enrich those in the energy and technology sector to make the right decisions about how they use the products to have a positive impact.