UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub
@plasticwastehub
UCL’s multidisciplinary centre for material waste innovation research
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How can we maximise the uptake of new food waste collection services? This new briefing from UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub provides strategies to boost household food waste recycling ♻️ Read more ⬇️ plasticwastehub.org.uk/news/new-polic…
🍎 What stops people from recycling their food waste? This new briefing from UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub explores the barriers to using food waste collection services ⬇️ plasticwastehub.org.uk/news/new-polic…
If you are a regular listener to the Archers on BBC Radio 4 and are interested in the debate on the biodegradable tree shelters, we have done quite a bit of work analysing these - our work reported here: theguardian.com/environment/20…
Official Announcement ! We have been successful in winning UKRI £1.75M funding to address the plastic waste issues of nappies, incontinence products and period products. UCL MechEng UCL UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub
Are you a festive fixer? 🎁 🪛 🎄🔧 Christmas lights on the blink?💡Why not take part in our Big Repair Project citizen science and tell us about your electronics repairs! bigrepairproject.org.uk Mark Miodownik UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub
Come and work with our UCL team! Social/policy research about local repair 🔧🪛 🧰 📱 💻 Mark Miodownik ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
Tackling global challenges from preventing plastic pollution to improving metal recovery and recycling, researchers from UCL Engineering, UCL Faculty of Life Sciences & UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences are benefiting from a multi-million £ investment in engineering biology from UK Research and Innovation ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/feb/…
Join us for a free webinar on the latest UCL research around sustainable systems for nappies in the UK, ft a live Q&A. Next Tuesday, 21st May 2024, 14:00 – 15:00 Register today: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regist… UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub Mark Miodownik
There are huge environmental, social and employment benefits to growing the UK electronics and appliances repair economy. In our latest paper we lay it all out using a systems approach. Brilliant work by Danielle Purkiss frontiersin.org/journals/susta…