A pioneering group of Canberra chemical engineers is putting a hefty round of funding into the recycling science of tomorrow, and it might spell the end of one of our biggest environmental headaches.
We know about microplastics in the oceans. We’ve given up plastic shopping bags and drinking straws and we separate rubbish and recycling every week when we put the bins out.
Would it surprise you to learn it’s not nearly enough? It might be time not just for doing more of what we’re already doing but a new approach altogether.
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