‘Most 'home-compostable' plastic doesn't fully break down in compost bins, UK study finds’. Read ABC News coverage of our research here abc.net.au/news/science/2…

1/ I’m willing to bet that not many people have sifted carefully through the soil at the bottom of the compost bin. But if you do, you might be in for a nasty surprise.... A THREAD 🧑‍🌾

‘Most ‘home compostable’ plastic doesn’t break down in garden bins’. Read New Scientist coverage of our research here newscientist.com/article/234554…

And a policy brief about the findings is available too: plasticwastehub.org.uk/news/new-polic…

How can we maximise the uptake of new food waste collection services? This new briefing from UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub provides strategies to boost household food waste recycling ♻️ Read more ⬇️ plasticwastehub.org.uk/news/new-polic…

🍎 What stops people from recycling their food waste? This new briefing from UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub explores the barriers to using food waste collection services ⬇️ plasticwastehub.org.uk/news/new-polic…

If you are a regular listener to the Archers on BBC Radio 4 and are interested in the debate on the biodegradable tree shelters, we have done quite a bit of work analysing these - our work reported here: theguardian.com/environment/20…

One of the problems with biodegradable and compostable plastics has always been that they look identical to normal plastics. In our latest paper we solve that problem using HyperSpectral Imaging and AI. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Official Announcement ! We have been successful in winning UKRI £1.75M funding to address the plastic waste issues of nappies, incontinence products and period products. UCL MechEng UCL UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub

Launching our £1.75M Comfort Loop Research project today - to make nappies, period products and incontinence products sustainable: plasticwastehub.org.uk/project/the-co…

📣 Fixer, makers, tinkerers! Check out this £free community repair event eventbrite.co.uk/e/repair-club-…

Results from USA study on the performance of biodegradable and compostable plastics confirm what we found- the claims by manufacturers are exaggerated. 5gyres.org/betteralternat…

Here is our original study showing that Home Compostable plastics don't work frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our new research paper on developing wearable assistive materials. We use phase change materials to actuate the structure. Which is pretty cool if you ask me. Wasn't my idea. It was Christian Partik's idea. The brilliant PhD student who led the work. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Here's the big picture, showing the intended application for our work. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Are you a festive fixer? 🎁 🪛 🎄🔧 Christmas lights on the blink?💡Why not take part in our Big Repair Project citizen science and tell us about your electronics repairs! bigrepairproject.org.uk Mark Miodownik UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub

Come and work with our UCL team! Social/policy research about local repair 🔧🪛 🧰 📱 💻 Mark Miodownik ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Tackling global challenges from preventing plastic pollution to improving metal recovery and recycling, researchers from UCL Engineering, UCL Faculty of Life Sciences & UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences are benefiting from a multi-million £ investment in engineering biology from UK Research and Innovation ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/feb/…

Join us for a free webinar on the latest UCL research around sustainable systems for nappies in the UK, ft a live Q&A. Next Tuesday, 21st May 2024, 14:00 – 15:00 Register today: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regist… UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub Mark Miodownik

There are huge environmental, social and employment benefits to growing the UK electronics and appliances repair economy. In our latest paper we lay it all out using a systems approach. Brilliant work by Danielle Purkiss frontiersin.org/journals/susta…