Steel from old tyres and ceramics from nutshells – how industry can use our rubbish

Veena Sahajwalla - researching how we
best use of society's waste products.

Veena Sahajwalla was one of three speakers at first forum staged in Shepparton by Slap Tomorrow.

Others speakers with the University of New South Wales professor at the 2013 forum (Climate change: a wake-up call) were the former leader of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Anna Rose, and Victorian climate change activist and former weather announcer on Channel 7, Rob Gell.

The UNSW professor talked then of combatting climate change by using old tyres and through a process she was researching and documenting, using them to produce energy.

More than 600 people attended the Shepparton event.

Read the piece on The Conversation by the Professor and Director of the Centre for SustainableMaterials Research and Technology (SMaRT) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Veena Sahajwalla, and a Senior Research Associate at the UNSW, Farshid Pahlevani -  “Steel from old tyres and ceramics from nutshells – how industry can use our rubbish.”