News: food waste
Project turning food waste into bioplastics receives award
³ÉÈË´óƬ PhD candidate Mel Nguyen was awarded at this year’s international Visualise Your Thesis (VYT) competition for her research investigating how to turn food waste into durable bioplastics.
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Project fights food waste in tourism
A new research project that focusses on how to reduce food waste in the tourism industry could contribute to lasting environmentally-friendly change.
Making good from agricultural and food waste
Researchers at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ have identified a ‘greener’ process for extracting health-promoting molecules found in agricultural and food waste, which can be repurposed in products such as skincare and pharmaceuticals.
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Understanding behaviour around food waste
A new research project aims to understand household behaviours around food waste in order to reduce the amount of food sent to landfill. It will promote a circular economy where the nutrients from food waste go back into the compost industry, and ultimately save greenhouse gas emissions from damaging our climate further when food waste rots in landfill.
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