Material scientist, engineer and inventor, enter please, Dr Veena Sahajwalla, founding director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology at UNSW

🔉“We can actually look at waste as a useful resource.” 🔉

Veena is renowned for pioneering the high-temperature transformation of waste into the production of green materials. She truly understands the value of innovation as a catalyst for the materials revolution and highlights our role as users within scientific leadership.

Veena founded the Green Ceramics MICROfactorieTM, which produces a new generation of high performance, non-toxic, engineered bio-composites for use in various architectural and decorative applications. Through understanding recycling at the micro-level and “thinking a little bit differently,” Veena is forging the way for a holistic solution to material waste.

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