Waste

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Health & Medicine

Daily decisions can reduce the carbon footprint of our health sector

The Healthcare Carbon Lab aims to reduce carbon emissions in our health sector by measuring carbon-emitting procedures and products, while still delivering quality care

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Health & Medicine

Healthcare has a waste problem, but we can achieve net zero

Climate change is the biggest health issue facing the planet. Healthcare professionals deal with the outcomes, but can also be part of the solution

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Health & Medicine

The environmental impact of healthcare

We cannot lead healthy lives if we live in an ailing world and the healthcare sector can do more to help address climate change

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Environment

Creating clean transport fuels from waste

By extracting biofuel from agricultural and urban waste, researchers hope to create a low-cost, zero emission transport fuel for the future

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Environment

One (wo)man’s trash...

How a Melbourne community’s mission to reduce waste is building a kinder and more sustainable society, enabled by social media

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Sciences & Technology

Mimicking nature’s own plastic

Amino acid is the building block of life and researchers are aiming to use them as the basis to chemically produce compostable plastics to help address our worsening plastic waste problem

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