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Good news research 🎉: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology researchers (from Green Research Group ) have identified a new enzyme that is able to degrade PET plastic. They have also developed a scalable platform to engineer this and other enzymes. Read more on the The University of Manchester website: manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Join us for #PlanetPlasticsPastries Sustainability Coffee Morning! Network with fellow professionals interested in making their business more sustainable, discuss common issues & ideas, and chat with experts from the SMI Hub. Find out more & register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/planet-plast…

♻️ New Paper ♻️ in ACS Sustainable Journals! Recycled Plastic Content Quantified through Aggregation-Induced Emission, from the team at #SMIHub & #Recon2. The paper presents a fluorescence-based analytical technique to determine recycled content in plastic pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

We made the #MyACSCover of ACS Sustainable Journals 🎉! Check it out below and also have a look at our article doi.org/10.1021/acssus…. ACS for Authors

⁦TyndallManchester⁩’s Carly McLachlan on stage at the GM Green Summit with Mayor ⁦Andy Burnham⁩ as part of UoM’s Sustainable Futures.

Our Sustainable Futures Celebration Showcase is 28 November. Sign up for updates from our 6 Challenge Areas; lightning style presentations by UoM researchers and join our networking session! bit.ly/3g0MpsR @SustainableUoM

Business Secretary Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps announces £95m to develop super-materials of the future at Henry Royce Institute in Manchester🔬 R&D projects like 3D bioprinting tissue & new casing for nuclear reactors support growth across UK sectors from health to energy📈 gov.uk/government/new…

Recircularising credit cards is possible! How? Check out our work on Chemical recycling of multi-materials from glycol-modified poly(ethylene terephthalate) in Resources, Conservation & Recycling to find out! Congrats to Peng, Joe, Alan, Fernando and Mike! doi.org/10.1016/j.resc…

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Tom Horton who has just passed his PhD viva! 🎉 He was the first PhD student to start in the group following our move to Manchester…time flies! Thanks to Lee Fielding and Fran Kerton for serving as internal and external examiners.

How can we make plastics easier to recycle? Check this Chemistry World article to find out! Featuring not only our own Mike Shaver, but also our partners in ProAmpac and MastercardUK. chemistryworld.com/news/plastics-…

Got the Thursday blues? Allow us to give you a resin to be cheerful! Theona Șucu’s paper is now out in ACS Macro Journals #Macromolecules. Congrats to Theona, Meng and Mike! 🎉pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

We are delighted to announce our opening plenary speakers for GRIPS 2023: David Shukman Science correspondent, BBC Michael Shaver, University of Manchester Libby Peake, Green Alliance Margaret Bates, OPRL Ltd >Register: bit.ly/3lxNBXT The University of Manchester Green Alliance

It’s an exciting day for the team - including Helen Holmes Torik Holmes Kristoffer Kortsen. We’ve published our report: ‘Tackling Household Plastic Waste: Best Practice for a Circular Plastics Economy’ - tinyurl.com/OneBinToRuleTh…. Have a read and find out why we need... 🧵

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Last week Prof #MichaelShaver joined #BBCR4's #InsideScience special on #Recycling! The episode gives an insight into the UK's recycling habits, as the panel discusses how prepared we are to further our efforts of sustainable waste management. Listen: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

It felt like all of us at today's panel (with Sherilyn MacGregor, Mike Shaver Green Materials Lab & Maria Sharmina) were reading from the same hymn sheet - we need radical/deep infrastructural and systemic transformations ('behaviour change' won't cut it). Plus, and somewhat surprisingly,

Resins to be cheerful: the big finale. Congratulations are in order for Dr Theona Șucu! 🎉 Thanks to @Filip_Du_Prez and Dr Chamil Abeykoon for examining.

PhD Opportunity: Uncovering the Impact of Nanoplastic Pollution: Developing New Tools for Environmental Understanding - aiming to address two key knowledge gaps in the field of nanoplastics Find out more & apply: findaphd.com/phds/project/u…