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Our friends at Replas have been working the circular economy for the past 30 years.
Australians return 1.3 million pieces of soft plastic per day to REDCycle recycling bins but wrappers, cling wraps and plastic bags have been a problematic plastic to recycle.
With new legislation to phase out soft plastic exports taking effect only last week, this project highlights an innovative solution to the problem.
But an RMIT team of engineers have partnered with Victorian recycling organisations Replas, RED Group and SR Engineering to develop a concrete material made from lightweight recycled plastic.
RMIT’s Dr Jonathan Tran and his team worked with industry to include Polyrok – a plastic aggregate made from soft plastics – which was used in the concreting of Coles Horsham’s car park and a footpath in the City of Frankston.
RMIT collaborated with Replas, RED Group and SR Engineering to develop the mix methodology and material characterisation for the Polyrok material.
Since the partnership, our industry partners Replas, Red Group and Coles have diverted over 1.3 billion pieces of soft plastic from landfill.
There is the potential for 105,000 tonnes of soft plastics to be converted into the dense plastic aggregate every year in a local factory in Melbourne.
In the future, we’re hoping to explore the production of sustainable concrete structures using a new large-scale concrete 3D printer at RMIT’s Bundoora campus.
The project was led by Senior Lecturer Dr Jonathan Tran from the School of Engineering with support from two research fellows, Dr Rajeev Roychand and Dr Thomas Loh.
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Soft plastic packaging recycled into sustainable concrete
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RMIT research has helped create circular-economy concrete made with soft plastic in a redeveloped carpark.Don't need to go overseas to have a life changing experience.
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Greg Tarr, a 17-year-old student at Bandon Grammar School in County Cork, Ireland, has been declared the winner of the 2021 BT Young Scientist & Technologist of the Year (BTYSTE) award for his project "Towards Deepfake Detection", per a press release.
interestingengineering.com/teenagers-ai-system-for-detecting-deepfake-videos-wins-award?utm_sourc...
Teenager's AI System for Detecting Deepfake Videos Wins Award
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Young scientist's software has over 150,000 lines of code and is ten times faster than the current best model. Read the details here.Selective demolition, “strip out” or “interior demolition”, is the dismantlement or removal of select building components or finishes which do not involve bringing down an entire structure.
It allows building materials to be reclaimed and recycled.
It involves the selective removal of materials, like wood, brick, metals, and concrete for later use in other builds.
The primary objective of this technique is to recover large amounts of reusable and recyclable materials in a safe and cost effective manner.
#circulareconomy #reducereuserecycle #recycle #demolition
#progress #environment
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It's a pan-demic: New gold rush at Gympie as fossicking licences boom
It's a pan-demic: New gold rush at Gympie as fossicking licences boom
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As Australians reel from COVID-created uncertainty, the number of people trying to make their own luck by panning for gold in one Queensland town has leapt by 40 per cent.I put the thingamabob inside the whatchamacallit, turned the doohickey and the wuteveritis still doesn't work!
Any ideas?
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