Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
His research interests are in Resource Futures with a focus on carbon mitigation & management, bioenergy & biochemical synthesis, and climate and energy policy.
Nick is the Deputy Director of the Wealth from Waste Cluster, a three year collaboration between UTS, CSIRO, Monash, Yale, Swinburne and the University of Queensland researching new opportunities, technologies and business models to harness value from metal-bearing waste. See wealthfromwaste.net
He is also an Honorary Lecturer at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London and a part-time Research and Design Engineer for Calix Limited, an Australian minerals processing and carbon capture technology developer.
Recycling plastic bottles is good, but reusing them is better
Nov 05, 2019 02:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Last week Woolworths announced a new food delivery system, in collaboration with US company TerraCycle, that delivers grocery essentials in reusable packaging. The system, called Loop, lets shoppers buy products from...
Companies should take charge of the potential toxins in common products
May 31, 2017 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Every year thousands of new contaminants enter the market in common consumer products and are washed down our drains without treatment. They end up in the water we drink, the fish we eat, and other marine life. These...
Explainer: why we should be turning waste into fuel
May 19, 2017 05:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The federal government recently announced that it is giving recycling company ResourceCo a loan of A$30 million to build two waste-to-fuel plants producing solid waste fuel. Waste-to-energy is an important part of the...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well