Catalysis is critical to many chemical processes, from digesting your food to plastic production and making beer! Catalysts could drive the clean energy revolution and much more. In the first post of a three-part series, we explore what catalysts are and how they have been instrumental in human development, from world wars to pushing the frontiers of medicine.
How much are we, the consumer, willing to change our own lifestyle to help reduce the environmental impact of the fast fashion industry? What makes an ethical fashion consumer?
We delve into current fashion brand sustainability initiatives. How are they changing their way of doing business?
So if we don’t want to continue with the ‘take-make-waste’ model of fashion, what’s the alternative? We find out about circular fashion, and why it means a fundamental rethink of the whole fashion production chain.
We look at the modern phenomenon that is the fast fashion industry and its impact on the environment. What is ‘fast fashion’? How has it changed our behaviour and what impact does that have?
Welcome to our new blog from the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering! Although our Institute’s name might seem quite niche and specific at first, the relevance of our work on society is anything but. Through this blog, we’ll bring you some of the stories of how our approach can revolutionise the 21st century. It has done so already in previous ones.