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| Subject: The circular economy: How plastic could be used to create more sustainable homewares Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:22 pm | |
| Discarded designer dresses, plastic signs and glass may not be what comes to mind when you think of stylish homewares, but all that could be set to change.
World-first recycling technologies recently unveiled at the University of New South Wales are turning common waste – such as old clothing and textiles, plastics and glass – into tiles, ceramics and panels that can be used for building products, furniture and other applications.
It could be the stylish solution to the pressing problem of dealing with our recyclable waste, according to professor Veena Sahajwalla, director of UNSW’s SMaRT Centre.
https://www.domain.com.au/news/the-circular-economy-how-plastic-could-be-used-to-create-more-sustainable-homewares-888600/ |
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