Media
Appearing in the wider media online and in print, a compilation of all the articles, features, interviews and films published
about our work at the SMaRT Centre...
The NSW Government has committed $5 million in funding to a program supporting the development and commercialisation of promising new NSW technologies.
In this interview with ABC TV News 24, Professor Veena Sahajwalla, NSW Circular Director, talks about the importance of the decision by the Council of Australian Governments to ban the exportation of our waste recyclables and the need to recycle...
Collaboration Key to Reviving Australian Manufacturing
A short feature by Sky News Australia discussing the key drivers for continuing the revival of manufacturing in Australia.
Veena Sahajwalla is interviewed by Tegan Taylor on ABC News.
Veena Sahajwalla is leading a war on electronic waste that might also improve the life of kabadiwallas
Professor Sahajwalla is interviewed on the Guardian.
A second life for digital debris
An article on microfactories in the context of India's informal e-waste collection sector.
Where does our rubbish go?
This question was raised in a recent survey led by UNSW Sydney and Professor Sahajwalla.
The e-waste microfactory launch has been covered in the August-September issue of the AMT Magazine. Read the full issue here.
As Australia's waste crisis escalates, Professor Veena Sahajwalla today launched the world's first e-waste microfactory which has the potential to reduce the vast amount of electronic waste heading into landfill....
Professor Veena Sahajwalla presented her vision of the future of green manufacturing at the IMPACT7 event held in Melbourne on the 9th of August.
SMaRT Centre is working with Planet Ark and Bingo Industries to repurpose used coffee grounds.
Professor Veena Sahajwalla comments in the Gaurdian on the current policies and processes being used to recycle waste.
Australia is stockpiling or burying football fields of waste every day but there is a home-grown solution to the incredible rubbish recycling problem highlighted this week by The Sydney Morning Herald.
We have the technology in Australia...
ABC reports on Professor Sahajwalla's vision of microfactories.
The Indian Express Reports on SMaRT Centre's fabrication of a replica of Mahatma Gandhi's glasses made from 100% e-waste plastics.
UNSW has invented a way to make small-scale recycling cost-effective, even for the most problematic and complex wastes, as Veena Sahajwalla writes...
Professor Veena Sahajwalla presenting microfactories at the BBC World-Changing Ideas Summit
E-waste is a present problem with enormous future potential. The electronics industry devours resources at a devastating rate, which is a huge issue for our rapidly-depleting planet. However, e-waste may provide a partial solution.
An article written by Sophie Vorath discussing the Green Manufacturing HUB hosted at the SMaRT Centre.
Professor Veena Sajawalla has been selected as one of the ambassadors for the Planet Ark National Recycling Week.
To listen to Veena speaking on the Correspondent's Report, hosted by the ABC, please click here.
An interview on the road with the Hindu! As part of the Jubilee Tour the Hindu kindly had an interview with Professor Sahajwalla to understand more about microfactories, e-waste, and what drives her.
SMaRT is excited to announce the latest member of the Green Manufacturing Hub, Resource Recovery Australia. The full article is on their website.
UNSW’s internationally renowned waste innovator, Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla, is the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Jubilee Chair and Professorship by the Indian Academy of Sciences.
For Movement Conception, Tanaya Joshi speaks with Professor Veena Sahajwalla about the challenges that face women in the field of science and the importance of programs like Science 50:50 to inspire young women and shed light on what working in...
There’s much more at stake at Australian steelmaker Arrium than today’s jobs, writes Veena Sahajwalla in The Australian.
Judged top of the innovation category in the 2015 Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence awards, Professor Veena Sahajwalla's mantra is '"reduce, recycle, re-use," and most importantly, "re-form".
In Fast Business Darren Baguley writes, "The advances technology has made in the last few decades have changed our world incredibly, but the built-in obsolescence of our gadgets has created a massive problem – e-waste" – and scientists are...
Growing up in Mumbai where waste is considered a valuable resource, Professor Veena Sahajwalla is making the most of its enormous potential.
As Brigid Delaney writes for The Guardian Australia, it’s an unwavering passion for innovation that drives Professor Veena Sahajwalla to turn waste into valuable resources, support developing countries through social technologies and inspire...
As Brigid Delaney writes for The Guardian Australia, it’s an unwavering passion for innovation that drives Professor Veena Sahajwalla to turn waste into valuable resources, support developing countries through social technologies and inspire...
The circular economy relies on research and innovation, and the inventor of ‘green steel’ Professor Veena Sahajwalla is leading the way by transforming waste into valuable resources.
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The collaboration between OneSteel and the SMaRT Centre at UNSW has resulted in ‘green steel’, a world first in sustainable steelmaking commercialised in Australia, Europe and Asia.
The ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for green manufacturing officially launched at the SMaRT Centre at UNSW Australia today.
The ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for green manufacturing officially launched at the SMaRT Centre at UNSW Australia today.
The first ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for UNSW will see industry partners Arrium, Brickworks, TES-AMM Australia, Tersum Energy and Jaylon leading a greener manufacturing future.
The first ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for UNSW will see industry partners Arrium, Brickworks, TES-AMM Australia and Jaylon leading a greener manufacturing future.
At the annual Women of Influence Awards held in Sydney last night, Professor Veena Sahajwalla was recognised for her scientific breakthroughs and for inspiring
the next generation of engineers.
Growing up in Mumbai where waste is considered a valuable resource, Professor Veena Sahajwalla is making the most of its enormous potential.
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The collaboration between OneSteel and the SMaRT Centre at UNSW has resulted in ‘green steel’, a world first in sustainable steelmaking commercialised in Australia, Europe and Asia.
Science 50:50 is a mentorship program to inspire young women to pursue a career in science founded by Scientia Professor and Laureate Fellow Veena Sahajwalla at UNSW Australia.
Leading the way for women engineers around the world, Professor Veena Sahajwalla has been named in this year’s top 100 Women of Influence.
Inventor, scientist, engineer and environmental crusader, this interview with Professor Veena Sahajwalla looks at the global impact of her research.
Inventor, scientist, engineer and environmental crusader, this interview with Professor Veena Sahajwalla looks at the global impact of her research.
Research and innovation is the driving force for Professor Veena Sahajwalla, the director of the SMaRT Centre who is also known as the ‘alchemist of waste’.
The vision for ‘green steel’ has its roots in the city of Mumbai where Professor Veena Sahajwalla gained inspiration for transforming waste into valuable resources.
The vision for ‘green steel’ has its roots in the city of Mumbai where Professor Veena Sahajwalla gained inspiration for transforming waste into valuable resources.
Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla has earnt a place on the Engineer’s Australia 2015 list of Australia’s top 100 engineers.
For The Conversation, Professor Veena Sahajwalla writes that Australian industries "are beginning to recognise the cost-effectiveness of reusing materials, and the importance of high value-add, small, agile and localised processing facilities."...
Professor Veena Sahajwalla, director of the SMaRT Centre at the University of New South Wales, and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, spoke with Good Habitat about green manufacturing and her vision for cities as the above ground...
Professor Veena Sahajwalla, director of the SMaRT Centre at the University of New South Wales, and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, spoke with Good Habitat about green manufacturing and her vision for cities as the above ground...
Professor Veena Sahajwalla joins the list of Australia’s most influential engineers in 2015.
On the eve of the World Resources Forum and International Sustainability Symposium hosted by the SMaRT Centre, UTS: Institute for Sustainable Future and the World Resources Forum in Sydney, The Tasmanian Times writes that Australia must innovate...
“I believe girls need to hear real stories from real people whose own pathways to success make it abundantly clear that science and technology really is for girls,” said Professor Veena Sahajwalla at the launch of Science 50:50.
Science 50:50 officially launched last night at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra leading the way for young women to engage in science, technology, engineering and maths.
Awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship this year, Professor Veena Sahajwalla will not only be using it to transform toxic e-waste into value-added metal alloys she has also launched Science 50:50 to support and mentor young women into science.
The 2014 cohort of ARC Australian Laureate Fellows was announced by Minister for Education, the Hon. Christopher Pyne MP, at a ceremony in Adelaide.
The 2014 cohort of ARC Australian Laureate Fellows was announced by Minister for Education, the Hon. Christopher Pyne MP, in August at a ceremony in Adelaide.
In India to speak at the Confederation of Indian Industry in Mumbai and to business leaders in Ahmedabad, Professor Veena Sahajwalla shared the success of ‘green steel’ technology and the potential for waste.
In India to speak at the Confederation of Indian Industry in Mumbai and to business leaders in Ahmedabad, Professor Veena Sahajwalla shared the success of ‘green steel’ technology and the potential for waste.
As Cheryl Jones writes for The Australian, the biggest new opportunity in recycling is not turning glass into glass, or plastic into plastic, but producing completely new resources.
As Cheryl Jones writes for The Australian, the biggest new opportunity in recycling is not turning glass into glass, or plastic into plastic, but producing completely new resources.
Following the success of ‘green steel’ Professor Veena Sahajwalla is now looking beyond the car tyre to the car itself, turning waste plastics, glass and metals into valuable ferrosilicon alloys.
As Peter Hannam writes for the Sydney Morning Herald, the ‘standout’ technology behind ‘green steel’ is transforming waste into a resource revolution.
As Peter Hannam writes for the Sydney Morning Herald, the ‘standout’ technology behind ‘green steel’ is transforming waste into a resource revolution.
Transforming the car tyre through a world-first, "green steel" making process has, to date, diverted over 1.6 million waste passenger tyres from landfill.
Using her expertise in the iron and steel industry Professor Veena Sahajwalla has developed a new "green steel" making process that is diverting waste tyres from landfill.
Smarter resources could help Australia develop an economy that will thrive long after its mineral riches have diminished.
Professor Veena Sahajwalla has won the $30,000 top prize in the Innovation Challenge awards run by The Australian newspaper.
Professor Veena Sahajwalla and the SMaRT Centre have taken out this year’s Australian Innovation Challenge for their invention of ‘green steel’.
The seemingly impossible dream of producing steel with the help of recycled materials such as old rubber tyres and plastics is now a reality thanks to close researcher-industry collaboration.