The big issue: How do we collect plastic waste?

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Thu, 29/09/2016 - 16:41

Printing festival flyers on plastic bags that can be sewed into ponchos afterwards?
Making plastic cube building blocks to set up furniture?
150 million plastic bags would provide heating for 750 homes if burned.
Recruiting 5-6% of the elderly Scottish population would be enough work force to crochet all of them into 250,000 sleeping mats - with 28,000 homeless living in Scotland around ten mats could be distributed per homeless person annually.

These are some ideas assessed at the second Engineers to the Rescue Workshop on Wednesday 28 September 2016. Two hours are not enough to develop a business model but how about developing an undergraduate research project or public engagement event in a similar workshop?