Photo via Naewna

 

by leah leah

Scientists at Naresuan University in northern Thailand made bulletproof vests out of recycled plastic waste which they donated to the soldiers of Royal Thai Army Area 3 in Phitsanulok province on Monday. The vests are made from a mixture of car headlight parts, dialysis bags, rubber shoes, and plastic from the sea.

 

The bulletproof vests were created under the project “Social Innovation from Plastic Waste from Communities in lower northern Thailand,” funded by the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) and implemented by Associate Professor Dr Panida Jongsuksomsakul, reports Naewna.

On Monday, Vice President of Research Development and Innovation at Naresuan University Professor Karnkanok Inkaninan delivered the bulletproof at the Army Entertainment Club at the King Naresuan Maharat army barracks in Phitsanulok province.

 

Soldiers tested out the effectiveness of the vests by shooting .9mm and .11mm calibre firearms at the vests from a distance of seven metres, 10 metres, 15 metres and 25 metres. No bullets penetrated through the vests.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thai-university-makes-bulletproof-vests-from-recycled-plastic

 

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Then this is something that Thailand could be a leader in, there’s always plenty of waste flip flops on the tide line, plenty of marine plastic.

 

I wonder if we could avoid the step of dumping it in the sea first, and just use plastic bottles.

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The vests are made from a mixture of car headlight parts, dialysis bags, rubber shoes, and plastic from the sea.

I hope they tested them better than the bomb detectors.

Thai law classifies bulletproof vests and helmets as weapons, there even was an arrest and trial of a foreign photojournalist covering the protests in Bangkok in 2015 who was wearing his own vest for protection.

It's interesting that these "weapons" (by Thai law) are created under a "Social Innovation" project...

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Soldiers tested out the effectiveness of the vests by shooting .9mm and .11mm calibre firearms at the vests from a distance of seven metres, 10 metres, 15 metres and 25 metres. No bullets penetrated through the vests.

Wow...????

To donate to American students? 

2 hours ago, khunPer said:

.9mm and .11mm calibre firearms

.11mm calibre???????

Some kind of ballistic hypodermic needle, perhaps?

 

or did they fail to miss the point 555!

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Perhaps they were knock off chinese bullets. 

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The vests are made from a mixture of car headlight parts, dialysis bags, rubber shoes, and plastic from the sea.

I hope they tested them better than the bomb detectors.

I was thinking the bloke that came up with the idea would be the best test subject....

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6 hours ago, khunPer said:

Wow...????

The soldier wearing the 50 BMG test vest was unavailable for comment.

The vests are approximately 5 meters thick

OK thats not fair, if they did , good job !

8 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

To donate to American students? 

nope, the american solution is give the students guns, and the teachers and anyone else for that matter. guns save lives.

1 hour ago, it is what it is said:

nope, the american solution is give the students guns, and the teachers and anyone else for that matter. guns save lives.

Is  a possibility, another one is: 

that the right is not unlimited and does not preclude the existence of certain long-standing prohibitions such as those forbidding "the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill"

 

Just claim all Americans are felons or mental ill, problem solved.