Waste

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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...

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...

Mountain Recycling's waste recycling facility. Credit: Mountain Recycling

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...

Taylor Uekert studies the transformation of plastic waste into hydrogen fuel

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cambridge in Autumn: Bicycles at Trinity College

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...

Fresh Food In Garbage Can To Illustrate Waste, Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture

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...

Patrick working with the clasificadores in Montevideo, Credit: Patrick O'Hare

'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...

Where there’s muck there’s aluminium (if not brass)

04 Dec 2014

Technology developed at the University of Cambridge lies at the heart of a commercial process that can turn toothpaste tubes and drinks pouches into...