SINGAPORE: When physicist Isaac Newton discovered gravity, his eureka moment came as he was sitting in a garden, observing an apple fall.
In the case of National University of Singapore scientist Duong Hai Minh, it came after he was suspended in mid-air, doing swirls.
“At the aerial silk (studio), I see people drink a lot of water after the exercise. And when I threw away my plastic bottle, I saw a lot of plastic bottles in the bin,” recalls the 46-year-old innovator.
“So I just wondered, can we recycle them into high-value material?