Rubber hits the road in ‘recycled’ concrete
Australian engineers have replaced conventional aggregates in concrete with rubber from discarded tyres.
Tag: recycling
How one person’s trash is an engineer’s treasure
Turning waste coffee grounds into ‘green steel’ is all in a day’s work for Australia’s Top 100 Innovators Professor Veena ...
Smart technology is recycling energy in Melbourne’s rail network
It takes just milliseconds to capture latent energy in a railway line and transfer it back into the grid. Global ...
Rubber railway: disrupting a 200-year-old sector
A University of Technology Sydney (UTS) rail research project not only achieves its sustainability goals, it has been scientifically tested ...
We could soon see natural turf grown on glass
The engineers and field of play specialists at SPORTENG are trialling the use of sand made from recycled glass as ...
WED22: Recycled concrete gives building waste a new life
Often, once a concrete structure reaches the end of its life, the only option for most concrete waste is landfill. ...
Engineer Veena Sahajwalla named 2022 NSW Australian of the Year
Growing up densely populated Mumbai inspired Veena Sahajwalla FIEAust CPEng to see the potential in what looked, to anyone else, ...
Clinical clean up: finding ways to recycle medical waste
Australian hospitals incinerate thousands of tonnes of potentially infectious medical waste every year — and COVID-19 has supercharged the problem. ...
World-first Queensland facility turning textiles into raw materials
At a new facility in South West Queensland, innovative textile recovery processes will help reduce landfill pileup by turning worn-out ...
Australian-engineered smart robotic recycling system has soft plastics in the bag
In 2017-18, only six per cent of Australian soft plastic waste was recycled. The rest added to the growing mountain ...
