Cigarette butt research attracts interest from Korea
August 12, 2019
Last week, a group of students from Korea visited the University’s School of Chemistry to investigate the recycling of cigarette butts. The students had won an LG Global Challenger travel grant which funded the group’s trip around Europe, visiting three other institutions in addition to the University of Nottingham, to further understand the recycling processes. …
An urgency to dematerialise the future
June 7, 2013
The United Nations Environment Programme has reported that by 2010 industrial civilisation was eating its way through 50 billion tonnes of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass every year and if nothing changes, by 2050, this will almost triple to 140 billion tonnes every year. Much attention today is being focused on using fewer resources …
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