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Welcome to the UNSW Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT@UNSW), the home of microrecycling science, MICROfactorieTM technologies, the NESP Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub and the ARC Microrecycling Research Hub.

Watch the ABC Australian Story featuring Veena, and follow the links to learn more about our Green Ceramics tile and other MICROfactorieTM technologies. 

For any industry and commercial enquiries please complete this form.

Founded in 2008 by ARC Laureate Fellow, Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla, the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) at the University of New South Wales works with industry, national and international research partners, and governments across Australia, on the development of innovative environmental solutions for the world’s biggest waste challenges.

Latest News

  • Be Waste Wise video image
    19 Oct 2020

    Circular solutions video

    In this video, not for profit Be Waste Wise sat down with Veena to talk about her work on helping society to be more sustainable and enhance our waste and recycling capability with new technologies

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    19 Oct 2020

    Stanford Uni video #1

    In this first short video in a series by Stanford University's Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB), Veena is asked is a zero-waste society a realistic goal for humanity?

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    23 Sep 2020

    Why all waste should be treasured

    In this opinion editorial for Recycling Week 2020, Veena explores the relationship between manufacturing and recycling, and how engineering new recycling technologies will be a step forward for sustainability

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    01 Sep 2020

    Spotlight on plastics Microfactorie

    In this news video and short story by Al Jazeera, the spotlight is turned on SMaRT's plastics Microfactorie in the context of global waste and recycling challenges

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    21 Jul 2020

    Australia Geographic and Veena podcast

    Australian Geographic talks to our Veena about our waste challenges and helping to develop circular economy solutions in a podcast

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    01 Jul 2020

    Victorian Local Governance Association conference

    In this Victorian Local Governance Association 2020 FastTrack Conference video, Veena talks about some sustainability, the circular economy and some of the UNSW SMaRT Centre technologies and innovations in waste, recycling and manufacturing

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    01 Jul 2020

    Veena on ABC's Q&A

    Veena was one of the guests on ABC TV’s 2020 Q&A program which talked about nothing other than the future of the world and the key challenges faced

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    01 Jul 2020

    Revolutionising recycling science

    CPA In The Black magazine did a cover story on Veena and the UNSW SMaRT Centre in July 2020, featuring her personal story and many of the SMaRT innovation

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    01 Jul 2020

    ABC Catalyst video

    In this story by the ABC's Catalyst program, Veena is asked about her recycling innovations and how to meet the waste challenges of now and the future

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    12 Jun 2020

    Macquarie Incubator LID series: The Circular Economy

    In this video, Veena joined an expert panel on the circular economy as part of a Macquarie University Incubator webinar series

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    03 Jun 2020

    Video by The Guardian

    In this video by The Guardian for their 2020 series 'The Green Recovery How Australia Can Close the Recycling Loop', Veena talks about the need for a circular economy and the need to better connect recycling and manufacturing

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    25 May 2020

    Make Australia ‘make’ again

    In this The Weekend Australian Magazine news story, Professor Veena Sahajwalla, talks about the importance of managing our waste like ‘renewable materials’ as we seek a new sovereign capability to support ourselves in the face of a crisis like COV

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    22 May 2020

    SMaRT submissions to NSW Government

    The UNSW SMaRT Centre has joined over 30 leading organisations and companies and the NSW Government and WWF-The UNSW SMaRT Centre has made a number of submissions to the NSW Government in relation to its strategy development for a 20 year waste pl

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    12 Mar 2020

    Why we need a circular economy

    In this opinion editorial and video, Veena explains the national and global context of why we need to develop circular economies and be smarter with our waste

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    01 Jan 2020

    SMaRT to host new ARC Microrecycling Research Hub

    The Federal Government and the Australian Research Council (ARC) announced in second half of 2019 that the UNSW SMaRT Centre had won its second ARC Research Hub, this time into Microrecycling of Battery and Consumer Wastes

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    12 Dec 2019

    Video - what is a circular economy?

    In this video by the Australian Academy of Science, Veena explains the concept of a circular economy

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  • Marrick and Co table and wall ornament
    07 Oct 2019

    Marrick & Co collaboration video

    In the below video, the SMaRT Centre's Green Ceramics and MicrofactorieTM technologies were used in a display apartment development by Mirvac, called Marrick & Co at Marrickville in Sydney, in collaboration with NSW Circular

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    30 Sep 2019

    BHERT Award for ‘Outstanding Collaboration In R&D'

    The SMaRT Centre has won a prestigious award for its ground-breaking recycling research in collaboration with industry partners

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