Impact Story

A designer collection carrying the stories of Nyoongar women from Western Australia to New Zealand Fashion Week 2026, forms part of a SCaW Hub project addressing textile waste, with the fashion created from donated clothing, upcycled by collective

Stormwater filters can stop substantial plastic pollution before it reaches waterways, with commercial areas the clearest priority.

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.

Research from the Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub is informing national circular economy reform, ensuring regional and remote communities are considered in Australia’s transition.

Hub researchers have developed a practical framework to improve how micro and nanoplastics are detected and measured in the environment. 

The Hub is working alongside Indigenous land and sea managers to weave together Indigenous and Western knowledge systems.