21 October 202218 October 2022 Sustainable concrete cuts emissions and waste The latest Flinders University-led study, with experts from the US and Turkey, demonstrates how geopolymers reinforced with renewable natural fibres and made with industrial by-products and waste-based sands can match the strength, durability and drying shrinkage qualities of those containing natural sands
9 August 20224 August 2022 When waste products can build a wall Researchers at the Flinders University in Australia have used low-cost feedstocks to make lightweight, durable polymer building blocks which can be bonded together with an adhesive-free chemical reaction
9 March 20168 March 2016 Australian Scientists Are Making Hair Products From Wool Waste From the shearing shed to catwalk - world stockpiles of waste wool are suddenly in fashion
4 November 20153 November 2015 How orange peel and industrial waste could clean mercury from the ocean Researchers have created a polymer from industrial waste and orange peels that “literally sucks mercury out of water and soil”
