{"id":132383,"date":"2024-07-16T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/magnetic-island-project-transforms-waste-into-building-materials\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:00:56","slug":"magnetic-island-project-transforms-waste-into-building-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/magnetic-island-project-transforms-waste-into-building-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Island project transforms waste into building materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132383\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>An innovative project to revolutionise waste management on Magnetic Island aims to transform landfill waste into common building materials. There are few better places to escape to than Magnetic Island, but even this tropical island paradise is not immune to the global issue of waste. Nearly 250 tonnes of material waste is transported from the popular tourist island off the coast of Townsville to the mainland each year, and most of it ends up in landfills. University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) researcher Dr Wahid Ferdous is involved in an innovative project to revolutionise waste management on the island.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdous, in collaboration with industry partners, aims to transform landfill waste into common building materials, such as roofing sheets and tiles, to be used to maintain houses and businesses on the island. \u201cFood packaging waste like milk bottles, juice boxes, chip packets and plastic containers pose a serious environmental problem and are destroying the island\u2019s natural resources,\u201d Ferdous said. \u201cOur ambition is to reduce the quantity of waste that leaves the island and cut the number of barges needed, which disturb the ocean ecosystem through fumes into the water and air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project has been supported by funding from the Queensland Circular Economy (Industry-Research) Program. Ferdous has been developing construction materials from landfill waste for the past 10 years. He aims to develop and commercialise waste-driven, low-carbon emission building materials to replace traditional high-emission building materials. UniSQ Centre for Future Materials director Professor Allan Manalo said the university had been working to help translate research into reality through industry-driven research projects.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wastemanagementreview.com.au\/magnetic-island-project-transforms-waste-into-building-materials\/\">Waste Management Review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/1-557\/\">Magnetic Island project transforms waste into building materials<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15286,575,8168,445],"class_list":["post-132383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-building-material","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-queensland","tag-waste"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}