University of Bath Institute for Sustainability

24/02/2023

⏰ Apply by 1 March to be our artist-in-residence

23/06/2022

Congratulations to all the CSCT researchers who were shortlisted for the Images of Research awards!

18/01/2022

[On the blog] Meet Ciarán, a CSCT PhD student who had the opportunity to join Skyrora and accomplish all sorts of childhood dreams by launching plastic-fuelled rockets into the stars.

👉 https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/csct/2022/ciaran-skyrora/

10/09/2021

[On the blog] Our student Claire-Louise Woodward is studying how to turn small molecules such as methanol and dimethyl ether into hydrocarbons to create everyday products such as fuels or bulk chemicals. 👉 https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/csct/2021/sustainable-fuel-solutions/

Claire's research is funded by the IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) Andrew Syd Fellowship. In this piece, Claire talks about her research, its relevance and her future in the world of sustainable technologies.

21/05/2021

Remember our campaign? We're delighted it has inspired researchers at British Council Brasil to create this video for FameLab International!

06/05/2021

📺 What if we told you that, every morning, people around the world wake up with enough data to control the coronavirus pandemic?

Our James Boxall-Clasby talks about his work on wastewater-based epidemiology and how this tool can act as an early warning to spot disease.

What if we told you that every morning, around the world, people wake up with enough data between them to control the Coronavirus pandemic and they flush it ...

21/04/2021

[On the blog] How can wastewater help us assess the health of a community and spot early signs of disease outbreak?

For a month, our student James Boxall-Clasby was given access to the entire International Water Association Publishing journal portfolio, so he could pick out some interesting papers to discuss.

👉https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/csct/2021/boxall-clasby-wbe-iwa/

29/03/2021

🖋It’s impossible to imagine everyday life without plastics. But our love of plastics has come at an environmental cost and our oceans are drowning in plastic.

Our researchers Matthew Jones and Jack Payne explain what chemical recycling is and how it can help to address this environmental challenge.

Aida De Heras 29/03/2021 Plastic pollution: how chemical recycling technology could help fix it Posted in: Community, Research updates chemical recycling, Conversation, Jack Payne, Matthew Jones, plastic recycling By Professor Matthew Jones and Jack Payne, Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technol...

23/03/2021

Back in December, during our annual event, we had the pleasure to hear from various experts in industry and academia talk about sustainable plastics.

Marvine Besong told us how Recycling Technologies Ltd is turning plastic waste into feedstock; Gerrit Gobius du Sart (Total Corbion PLA) shared his knowledge on recycling aliphatic polyesters; Professor Susannah Scott (UC Santa Barbara) spoke about recycling PET plastic waste; and Giovanna Laudisio (Naturbeads), Professor Hudson Carvalho (Universidade de São Paulo) and Ciarán Callaghan (CSCT student, University of Bath) discussed cellulose microbeads.

Read on to find out more about all these technologies and how they're making plastics more sustainable.

Plastics are an integral part of the global economy and they have helped build the modern world. Future technologies central to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels will also require plastics. Their unrivalled flexibility, durability, versatility and low cost has ensured their use in almost every s...

10/03/2021

[On the blog] "By working together we can share experience, culture and technical knowledge and ultimately create collaborative solutions that can generate a positive, dependency-free impact."

In 2019, CSCT researcher Mirella Di Lorenzo spent some time in Icapuí, Brazil, working with the local community to implement a self-powered technology designed to treat drinking water and produce energy. Read more about her experience.

👉https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/csct/2021/di-lorenzo-community-engagement/

08/03/2021

🏆📣 On , we are delighted to share this.

Asel has been described as “a force of nature, an outstanding role model, a tireless advocate for gender equality and a game-changing scientist whose work will save the lives of women and children around the world”.

Our warmest congratulations, Asel Sartbaeva!

Dr Asel Sartbaeva has received the prestigious FDM everywoman in Technology ‘Woman of the Year’ award for being an outstanding role model for women in science and technology. On 4 March 2021, Dr Sartbaeva, a lecturer in Chemistry and member of the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies...