Advocacy and community

Engineers Australia's digital publication Create has produced a video and story on some of the 'waste to product' technologies developed at the UNSW SMaRT Centre

Veena featured on an ABC The Drum show focused in part on textile waste, sharing insights on the scale of the problem and some of the innovative solutions to it including UNSW SMaRT Centre technologies

This short video is part of a keynote address Veena made to the Net Zero North America three-day event hosted by Companies for Net Zero USA

In this new op ed, Veena talks about recovering critical and valuable materials from waste has a big role to play in helping to electrify the world as we move towards renewable energies and reducing our carbon footprint

Professor Veena has been interviewed on ABC Radio National's Life Matters program to explain her concept of 'waste as a resource'

UNSW SMaRT Centre's collaboration with industry partner Mirvac for their Pavilions project where SMaRT's MICROfactorie^TM Green Ceramics products were used in a display apartment has been highly commended at 2021 Sustainability

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has presented UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena Sahajwalla with the award as the 2022 NSW Australian of the Year

In this opinion editorial column published by the Sydney Morning Herald, and presented to the SMH Sustainability Summit, Veena talks about using waste as a resource to help deliver the power and materials needed for a sustainable future

On 16 November 2021, Veena will be delivering a tutorial as part of the LGPro professional development courses being offered as part of the Infrastructure & Transportation Summit

On 11 November 2021, Veena will deliver a keynote address to the Net Zero North America three-day event hosted by Companies for Net Zero USA

On 11 November 2021, Veena will speak at the 2021 Sustainability Awards and Digital Summit about circular economy concepts including using waste and recycling waste as built environment products and her UNSW SMaRT Centre innovations

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena Sahajwalla has been shortlisted as a NSW finalist for the Australian of the Year Awards

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena has featured in a video for Business Events Sydney as one of the organisation's Global Ambassadors

On 2 November 2021, Veena will be delivering a TED-X style keynote address to the 2021 Impact X Summit along with a high level group of international and national speakers and leaders

The Brilliant, a global news hub for best practice in science communication, has published this new feature story on some of the innovative work by the UNSW SMaRT Centre and its director Professor Veena

On 29 October 2021, Veena will be participating in ATSE Innovation Nation Sustainability Seminar talking about the importance of collaboration in sustainability innovations

On 19 October 2021, Veena will be participating in a Australia v England debate as part of the 2021 Sydney Water Innovation Festival

On 26 October 2021, Veena will be delivering a keynote address to the international Nature Conference - Waste Management and Valorisation for a Sustainable Future