Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub

Research delivering practical ways to help create more sustainable communities and better waste and recycling management across Australia

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Welcome to the new Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub, led by @VeenaSahajwalla. Starting up during COVID in 2021, this welcome video was made during lockdown https://t.co/4OpKZdg1pT

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Hub researcher experiments demonstrate that a widely used plastic for drink and food containers more easily breaks down into microplastics under common household usage and from environmental exposure than previously thought.

https://t.co/6mxGTlKixt

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📺 Watch Hub leader @VeenaSahajwalla talk about reforming waste into new products to keep materials in circularity with @APACnetwork

#CircularEconomy #SustainableSolutions #Manufacturing

https://t.co/wGTwYKLl6h

[APAC Network @APACnetwork]

For the past 2 decades, circular economic principles have driven significant progress, but new technologies are pushing the boundaries even further with innovations that "reform" waste. Hear from @UNSW Sydney's Prof @VeenaSahajwalla: https://t.co/J2b8Td0reX

[Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub @nespsustainable]

Our latest research with @CSIRO & @CurtinUni reveals key strategies for managing end-of-life tyres & conveyor belts in 🇦🇺. Recommendations include product stewardship regulation, landfill bans & recycling hubs:
https://t.co/sWvLYeuwKM

#CircularEconomy #Sustainability #Tyres

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💰FOR AUCTION💰 Bid for our artwork 'Pieces of Sustainability' created by the Hub and SMaRT@UNSW from 100% waste materials, raising money for @NYSFoz's Access and Equity Scholarship Fund

#Sustainability #Fundraising #CircularEconomy #STEM

https://t.co/id81HWBjmc

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The Hub is supporting the next generation of sustainability leaders as part of the PELICANS plastic
initiative. Read more:

https://t.co/fBxcBMlF4b

#Sustainability #Plastic #PELICANS #CircularEconomy

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The Hub is supporting the next generation of sustainability leaders: our members joined forces to tackle plastic pollution with hands-on experience in circular economy principles and industry workshops #Sustainability #Plastic #PELICANS #CircularEconomy
https://t.co/fBxcBMlF4b

[Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub @nespsustainable]

Watch Hub leader Professor @VeenaSahajwalla discuss France's new #environmental tax on #fastfashion with @abcnews

She explores whether a similar tax in Australia could help limit textile #waste created by mass-produced clothing

https://t.co/ruXqB00qQX

[Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub @nespsustainable]

Discover how environmental science collaborations are driving real-world impact 🌏Highlights from the
@DCCEEW NESP Partnership, Science, Impact Conference.

Read now: https://t.co/HZi6nMIjrI

#EnvironmentalScience #Sustainability

[Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub @nespsustainable]

Hub Leader @UNSW Prof @VeenaSahajwalla will speak at a free in-person and #webinar event by @OzHarvest, with its CEO and Founder Ronni Kahn AO, discussing how to create more #sustainablecommunities and #innovative ways to manage #waste
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@UNSWScience
https://t.co/lGD8H8RTlc

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Hub Leader @UNSW Prof @VeenaSahajwalla will speak at a free webinar hosted by @TheAusIMM, 'Circular Economy - more than recycling', and has done a Q&A where she explains why #innovative #recycling is central to a #circulareconomy

https://t.co/d4tSSboq51

@DCCEEW
@UNSWScience

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Wonderful to see our Hub Leader Prof @VeenaSahajwalla and her #research featuring in this ABC documentary series

@DCCEEW

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Delighted to have represented @UNSW SMaRT Centre in a new four-part documentary series by @ABCaustralia, Makers of Modern Australia, where in episode 2, Innovators, SMaRT's various #innovative #waste and #recycling #technologies are featured

https://t.co/afuuZNnE0S

@UNSWScience

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Our Hub Leader Prof @VeenaSahajwalla in this Q&A provides insights into how to create more #sustainablecommunities and #circulareconomies using #waste as a #resource

@dcceew

[Veena Sahajwalla AO @VeenaSahajwalla]

Delighted to have been interviewed by @TheAusIMM Institute about our @UNSW SMaRT Centre #recycling and #waste #innovations, and some of our research programs including the @nespsustainable Communities and Waste Hub

https://t.co/yVPAaGrTMO

@UNSWScience
@DCCEEW

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Hub Leader @UNSW Prof @VeenaSahajwalla will speak at the @_Red_Earth Community Foundation's 2023 Leadership 'Circularity' Forum, talking about #sustainability and the importance of using #waste as a resource to achieve #decarbonisation goals

https://t.co/A0GT3v5sIH

@DCCEEW

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Delighted our Hub Leader Prof @VeenaSahajwalla will be sharing some of her waste and recycling story and technologies which are being used by our @nespsustainable (see https://t.co/Naj6uH9PKp)

@DCCEEW

[Veena Sahajwalla AO @VeenaSahajwalla]

Excited to deliver a joint speech at @sxswsydney with @UNSW SMaRT Centre partner, Renew IT CEO James Lancaster, talking about our collaboration around developing and commercialising SMaRT's e-waste and other #MICROfactorie #Technologies

https://t.co/JQjniES5ZA

@UNSWScience

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2023 ecologiQ Greener Infrastructure Conference hosts @VicGovAu have provided a full range of video resources from the multi-day conference including three video speeches by Hub Leader @UNSW Professor @VeenaSahajwalla.

Watch via link https://t.co/Em0C4C36u5

@DCCEEW

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Hub Leader @UNSW Prof @VeenaSahajwalla will do a keynote at the ecoforum / SustRem 2023 conferences by @ALGA_Ltd, talking about #sustainability, the importance of using #waste as a #resource, and Hub #research she is heading up on #microplastics

https://t.co/2mItwRHHIe

@DCCEEW

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An important ABC news story featuring our Hub Leader Prof @VeenaSahajwalla talking about #waste #plastics challenges and solutions

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[Veena Sahajwalla AO @VeenaSahajwalla]

Delighted to have been interviewed by @abcnews about Australia's efforts to phase out single use #plastics and the emerging #technologies tackling the #waste challenge including some we've developed at the @UNSW SMaRT Centre

https://t.co/8jJmH8aTFY

@UNSWScience

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And that's a wrap: @UNSW Professor @VeenaSahajwalla was MC of the multi-day 2023  Greener Infrastructure Conference where she spoke about #sustainability and the importance of using #waste as a #resource (see her video wrap) and Hub research

https://t.co/k6pKOm2XOi

@DCCEEW

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Hub researcher Dr @Emily_Flies of @Utas will be speaking at @_PHAA_'s Australian Public Health Conference 2023 about some of her Hub research: nature-based solutions for sustainable healthcare and communities

https://t.co/sir1aKYew4

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