Unical Int’l School produces power generator from waste

By Emma Una

CALABAR—UNIVERSITY of Calabar International Demonstration School has produced a power generator from metal scraps and building materials from waste plastics.

Showcasing the products, tagged Chi-Plastics, yesterday, as part of Democracy Day celebration, Coordinator of the programme, Mrs Kristy Oko, said the Global Entrepreneurship team of the school made up of students, produced the materials which are used for building and construction of roads.

She said: “We have produced interlocking stones, tiles, roofing sheets from waste plastics, which are alternatives to the zinc, metal and clay materials used in roofing and tiling of houses.”

He said the project, which involves the Social Enterprise Business, SEB, and Socially Responsible Business, SRB, involves students using their creative abilities to create items and materials, which are environmentally safe and cheap for the ordinary person to buy.

Mrs Oko said SRB project students have also produced a generator from recycled waste metal, which uses water to function.

According to her, “the power generator uses water and was produced by my students from waste metals and it is as effective as those ones bought from the market at high cost. This one can be afforded by everyone.”

She said the students decided to showcase the items on Democracy Day to demonstrate the benefit democracy as a form of government has brought to the country by allowing education to thrive and young people to use their minds to produce items that can benefit everyone in the society.

According to her, the students have won many prizes from producing cheap products and plans are underway for the mass production of some of the items to flood the market for anyone who wants to use them to buy.

Her words: “We are making plans to mass-produce these items, while we will appreciate any assistance for the mass production of the water-powered generator to meet the electricity needs of most Nigerians since public power supply has remained epileptic.”

She said the programme has dedicated some of its funds to the provision of scholarship and books to some talented primary school kids to encourage them to be inventors.

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