Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/20
By: Pan Chih-yi and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) A system developed by Taiwan’s top Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to recycle toxic liquid crystal display (LCD) waste has won an R&D 100 Award for 2017, which honors revolutionary technology from around the world over the past year.

The waste recycling system, touted as zero-waste, eco-friendly and cost-effective, also earned special recognition from the R&D 100 Awards jury, which honors the top 100 R&D pioneers and their revolutionary ideas in science and technology every year, ITRI said Monday.

Addressing the innovative recycling system at a press conference that day, Hung Huan-i (洪煥毅) of ITRI’s Material and Chemical Research Laboratories said if the liquid crystal sealed in a LCD glass panel is buried in dirt, it can cause greater harm to the environment than plastic products.    [FULL  STORY]