The Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub is a consortium of leading research institutions and partners across industry, government and community groups, established under the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program.
Strong and embedded codesign between researchers, Indigenous Australians, and research and data users including industry, governments and other decision makers.
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Hub overview video
In this welcome and overview video, Hub Leader Professor Veena joins various Hub research and industry partners to provide an overview of the Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub
Hub Leader Professor Veena joined Federal Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley and NSW Senator Jim Molan to visit the West Nowra Waste and Recycling Depot where a new ‘waste to product’ MICROfactorie will be built
Hub Leader and UNSW SMaRT Centre Director Prof Veena appears in this video with Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management Trevor Evans to help promote 'product stewardship', the shared responsibility for products.
In this video, Hub Leader Professor Veena joins various Hub research and industry partners to provide an overview of the Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub
In this new op ed, Hub Leader Veena talks about how we are on the cusp of a new epoch, the materials revolution, as sustainability joins economic outcomes driving the next industrial age
Hub Leader Professor Veena Sahajwalla was interviewed by The Fifth Estate about various and technologies that reform waste into the next generation of manufacturing materials