Polluting SUVs will be on roads for the next two decades – what should we do with them?
SUVs accounted for 7% of the European market in 2009. Today, it's almost 40%.
Tom Stacey, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University •
conversation
April 12, 2021 • ~5 min
April 12, 2021 • ~5 min
Five ways to reduce your household waste – and stop it being shipped to poorer countries
UK still ships huge amounts of plastic waste to places like Vietnam, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Sankar Sivarajah, Head of School of Management and Professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy, University of Bradford •
conversation
Feb. 15, 2021 • ~5 min
Feb. 15, 2021 • ~5 min
How to turn plastic waste in your recycle bin into profit
Consumers can turn plastic waste into valuable products at minimal cost using the open source technologies associated with DRAM – distributed recycling and additive manufacturing.
Joshua M. Pearce, Wite Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University •
conversation
Jan. 11, 2021 • ~9 min
Jan. 11, 2021 • ~9 min
Plastics could help build a sustainable future – here's how
Plastics are strong, durable, waterproof, lightweight, easy to mould, and recyclable – all key properties for construction materials.
Sibele Cestari, Research Fellow in Polymeric Materials, Queen's University Belfast •
conversation
Aug. 12, 2020 • ~8 min
Aug. 12, 2020 • ~8 min
Britain's first major recycling drive fell apart 80 years ago – it's a warning to UK government today
The 'pots to planes' appeal in the summer of 1940 helped inspire a mass recycling effort, but problems soon emerged.
Henry Irving, Senior Lecturer in Public History, Leeds Beckett University
• conversation
June 26, 2020 • ~7 min
June 26, 2020 • ~7 min
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