Sowing seeds for sustainability
17 Jul 2024 Finding homes for used toasters, recycling batteries and inspiring a fondness for secondhand fashion are just three of the sustainability challenges...
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Plastic Fantastic Cambridge
13 Mar 2024 Cambridge University Association Football Club (CUAFC) will wear a design that copies the match kit from their 1905 Varsity fixture with Oxford for...
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Cambridge introduces precision technology approach to recycling in first for UK Higher Education
28 Jun 2023 The University of Cambridge aims to increase waste recycling from around 50% to 80% by reducing the number of different bins used by staff and...
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Plastic: the new fantastic?
05 Jun 2020 Hear how Cambridge researchers are working towards eliminating plastic waste and making best use of one of the most successful materials ever invented...
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The "stop doing stupid stuff" approach to sustainable manufacturing
22 Jan 2020 Around 90% of the resources we process to create goods are not reaching the person for whom they are made. How can we make manufacturing more...
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The 'P' word
16 Jan 2020 How do we shift our 'take, make, throw-away' plastic world towards 'recycle, recover, re-use'? It's time for blue-sky thinking plus practical measures...
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The £2 billion vegetable and the agricultural future of the East
15 Mar 2019 From crop science to robotics, supply chains to economics, Cambridge University researchers are working with farmers and industry to sustainably...
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Environmental report highlights Cambridge’s progress towards sustainability goals
18 Apr 2018 The University has published its Environmental Sustainability Report 2017, setting out its progress over the past 12 months, including key...
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Cambridge to play major role in €400m EU food innovation project
13 Dec 2016 The University of Cambridge is one of a number of British universities and companies that have won access to a £340 million EU Innovation programme to...
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'Extreme sleepover #19' – Living beside Uruguay’s ‘Mother Dump’
30 Sep 2016 In a new podcast, Patrick O’Hare describes his time with the clasificadores – the families who scavenge Montevideo’s pungent ‘wastescape’ to recover...
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