U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership
Leading materials science company Dow and national sports agency Sport Singapore partner to establish a permanent waste collection ecosystem to support a circular economy in Singapore. Through this initiative, used shoes are collected to create sports infrastructure including jogging tracks, fitness corners, and playgrounds. The rubber soles of the shoes are ground into rubber granules that are then used as materials to build sports infrastructure. The nation intends to build upon the success of the 2020 project titled “Others see an old shoe. We see the future” in which over 75,000 pairs of shoes were collected and used to build 3.3km of jogging track. Please see the links below to learn more about this initiative.
US-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership
USASCP is a key deliverable of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy that seeks to harness U.S. public and private sector expertise to collaborate with the 26 pilot cities of the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN) in order to meet the varied challenges of rapid urbanization and help improve the lives of people in the region.
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