“The assumption that everything has to be mass-scaled and mass-produced to make money is what I wanted to show is not necessarily right.”
In Australia, according to the most up-to-date stats, 74 million tonnes of waste is created every year. If you lined up all the bottles and cans we use in a single day, it would stretch over 4000 kilometres – the same distance from the country’s most easterly point, Cape Byron, to the west’s Shark Bay. What we do with that waste has never been more important. From the phasing out of single-use plastics across the country to the recently implemented waste export ban on mixed plastic, we are being encouraged to think bolder and braver than ever before in order to reimagine waste. From the industrial age through to our digital days, we now stand on the precipice of a new era: the material revolution. And it’s thanks, in part, to the work of Professor Veena Sahajwalla – Sydney’s very own waste queen.
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