The UNSW SMaRT Centre welcomes the approval by the NSW Government of a new mandatory waste battery recovery scheme to help address the fast growing and highly toxic and dangerous problem of end of life batteries
Create Magazine has published a story about UNSW SMaRT Centre's capability to recover critical materials from waste streams, in the context of the multi-billion-dollar critical minerals pact signed between Australia and the US
An opinion editorial (op ed) by UNSW SMaRT Centre Director Prof Veena and Head of MICROfactorie Technologies Anirban Ghose has been published by The Policymaker
There is growing interest in the use of coffee grounds to produce materials for advanced batteries, with some recent scientific studies showing significant advances in the search for sustainable and efficient energy storage solutions using biomass
A Netherlands university magazine has published an opinion editorial (op ed) article by Prof Veena about the need to recover valuable materials from wastes for future manufacturing (and sovereign) needs
A UNSW SMaRT Centre government submission urging more robust recycling arrangements for electronic waste has featured in a new report by the Total Environment Centre entitled "Battery Recycling Crisis"
The Australian Institute of Energy has interviewed Prof Veena for its EnergyNews magazine about recovering critical materials from waste to drive Australia’s energy transition
The video recording the highlights of the official launch event of the ARC Research Hub for Microrecycling of Battery and Consumer Wastes has been published
The ARC Research Hub for Microrecycling of Battery and Consumer Wastes, directed by renowned UNSW Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla, was opened today
SMaRT supports the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in backing recommendations of the new CSIRO Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap
The UNSW SMaRT Centre is lending its support to a new Australian Government-backed recycling scheme B-cycle that aims to make it easy for Australians to collect and recycle single use or rechargeable batteries such as alkaline or lithium batt
In this new op ed, Veena talks about recovering critical and valuable materials from waste has a big role to play in helping to electrify the world as we move towards renewable energies and reducing our carbon footprint
In this opinion editorial column published by the Sydney Morning Herald, and presented to the SMH Sustainability Summit, Veena talks about using waste as a resource to help deliver the power and materials needed for a sustainable future
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
