From Waste to Wealth using Green Chemistry
- đ¤ Speaker: Prof. James Clark (University of York)
- đ Date & Time: Friday 23 January 2015, 20:00 - 21:30
- đ Venue: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW
Abstract
Increasing demand for consumer goods from an increasing world population is placing enormous strain on the resources needed by the worlds manufacturing industries. At the same time, the wastes from the consumer society have been allowed to accumulate in landfill sites, which can create serious health and safety problems and is completely non-sustainable. Industry now seeks a closed loop approach to the twin problems of resource and waste by making the latter the solution to the former…
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Prof. James Clark (University of York)
Friday 23 January 2015, 20:00-21:30