Acrylic boards are considered industrial waste in the country. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Redundant acrylic partitions that were installed in almost every eatery in Japan, as well as in other places such as classrooms, to protect people against the spread of the Covid-19 virus are being transformed into other objects that are more useful.
Students at Kindai University in Osaka prefecture converted partitions that were set up in classrooms to make card holders, which were presented to 26 graduating students in March. These barriers were removed even before the Japanese government downgraded the Covid-19 pandemic to category five under the infectious disease prevention law – the same level as seasonal influenza – on May 8.
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