Fantastic Plastic: Future chemists are creating oil from plastic with help from BP
Release date:
14 September 2012
Do you know how many plastic bottles it would take to drive your car 100 kilometers?.
Newton Moore Senior High School is closer to finding out an answer to that question through their 2012 BP Education Grant project..
This great initiative of the science department is called “Petroleum from Plastics” and starts with students collecting and classifying waste plastic, then extracting petroleum from this plastic, analyzing the fuels created and evaluating the recyclable values of the materials and then testing the use of the petroleum produced..
Newton Moore Senior High School has designed a project which incorporates all student levels of the school and covers a range of learning from chemistry through to social..
In 2012, the BP Education Grant program is providing a $10,000 grant towards this project which will today be presented by BP to the school..
Although the BP Education grant program has been running in Western Australia for around 20 years, this is the first year that BP has offered grants up to $10,000 to schools such as Newton Moore, with great initiatives such as this..
In fact Newton Moore was also successful in receiving a grant from BP in 2011, for their Electronic Engineering project..
BP Community Affairs Advisor Sarah McNamara said the BP Education Grant program had provided funding of up to $10,000 to 10 Western Australian high schools in 2012 to help them proceed with their inspiring projects. “The BP Education Grants program is designed to help WA’s secondary school teachers with their innovative approach to enhancing students’ learning opportunities and encourage students to get excited about science and engineering,” Miss McNamara said.
Newton Moore Senior High School is closer to finding out an answer to that question through their 2012 BP Education Grant project..
This great initiative of the science department is called “Petroleum from Plastics” and starts with students collecting and classifying waste plastic, then extracting petroleum from this plastic, analyzing the fuels created and evaluating the recyclable values of the materials and then testing the use of the petroleum produced..
Newton Moore Senior High School has designed a project which incorporates all student levels of the school and covers a range of learning from chemistry through to social..
In 2012, the BP Education Grant program is providing a $10,000 grant towards this project which will today be presented by BP to the school..
Although the BP Education grant program has been running in Western Australia for around 20 years, this is the first year that BP has offered grants up to $10,000 to schools such as Newton Moore, with great initiatives such as this..
In fact Newton Moore was also successful in receiving a grant from BP in 2011, for their Electronic Engineering project..
BP Community Affairs Advisor Sarah McNamara said the BP Education Grant program had provided funding of up to $10,000 to 10 Western Australian high schools in 2012 to help them proceed with their inspiring projects. “The BP Education Grants program is designed to help WA’s secondary school teachers with their innovative approach to enhancing students’ learning opportunities and encourage students to get excited about science and engineering,” Miss McNamara said.
Further information:
Name: Erin Davey
Location: BP Australia External Affairs
Phone : +61 8 9419 9351
Location: BP Australia External Affairs
Phone : +61 8 9419 9351
