Plastic pollution has been identified as an environmental problem similar in scope and complexity as global challenges like climate change.
Plastic pollution has been identified as an environmental problem similar in scope and complexity as global challenges like climate change.
The QUT research team, from chemistry and law, have published their multi-pronged approach in Polymer Chemistry.
The researchers are Dr Hope Johnson, Dr Lewis Chambers, Dr Joshua Holloway, Annastasia Bousgas, Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari, Associate Professor James Blinco, and ARC Laureate Fellow Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik, and they are part of QUT’s Centre for Materials Science and Centre for a Waste Free World.
Professor Barner-Kowollik said one of the biggest challenges in addressing plastic pollution was tracing the polluting plastic back to the source.
“Tracing plastic resolves the anonymity of plastic waste,” Professor Barner-Kowollik said.
Read more at: Queensland University of Technology
QUT reseachers: Dr Hope Johnson inset. From left: Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari, Dr Joshua Holloway, Distinguished Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik, Annastasia Bousgas, Lewis Chambers and Associate Professor James Blinco. (Photo Credit: QUT)
