One company is recycling plastic waste into railway sleepers
Converting plastic and polystyrene into durable railway sleepers could help reduce waste – and show how vital engineers will be ...
Tag: waste management
WEC 2019: “We can’t build a better world without a better construction industry”
Matt Gough’s keynote at the World Engineers Convention focused on how and why the construction industry must move to be ...
Meet one engineer helping people see the huge possibilities in the circular economy
Veena Sahajwalla hopes her micro-recycling approach to e-waste, metals, plastics and more will produce a smarter and more sustainable society.
Meet one engineer transforming biosolids into bricks
Abbas Mohajerani thinks that human waste could mean another brick in the wall.
Going full circle: How engineers can help give new life to old materials
Professor Veena Sahajwalla is passionate about stopping valuable composite materials from ending up in landfill and boosting efforts to establish ...
Australian high schooler takes out international inventor’s prize
A 13-year-old Adelaide boy has won an international inventors award in Malaysia after designing a WiFi enabled electronic monitoring system ...
Molecular ‘scissors’ could cut down on plastic waste
European researchers have brought us one step closer to a low-cost method of recycling plastic waste by replicating enzymes used ...
6 ways engineers are fighting back against the global plastic waste problem
Harmful to humans and animals alike, the growing amount of plastic in the world’s oceans is an unfolding disaster. Fortunately, ...
This ‘rubbish bin for the ocean’ sucks in plastic waste and cleans waterways
More than 13 million tonnes of plastic enter Australia's waterways every year. Meet Seabin, a device designed to collect plastic ...
Should Australia explore more waste-to-energy options?
As Australia’s waste piles up, the country is finding itself in serious need of new, sustainable solutions. Could converting the ...
