PhD Expression of Interest
The Solving Plastic Waste CRC (SPW CRC) is interested in recruiting talented PhD candidates with both a strong academic record as well as work experience in an area relevant to the research activities of the SPW CRC.
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Note: We currently accept PhD expressions of interest from Australian citizens or permanent residents only.
This program will develop plastic compositions that are more easily recycled or composted, and product designs which eliminate their unnecessary use, enable their reuse, avoid problematic plastics and material complexity and increase recycled content.
This program will increase the recovery, sorting and recycling of plastics, maximising the value of the recyclates and expanding the markets for products that contain them. It will also enhance technologies for energy recovery from plastic waste.
This program will scale the delivery of a carbon neutral circular economy for plastics by developing circular business models and markets, evidence-based policy advice and globally-informed strategies, underpinned by a robust evidence base for industry decision-making.
This program will develop standardised methods to determine the sources, fate, and dispersion of microplastics in Australia’s agricultural soils, examine the long-term risks to human and environmental health and provide effective mitigation strategies to reduce the transmission of microplastics to Australian soils.