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"Turning sawdust into concrete and reusing steel from old buildings are among
the environmentally friendly ideas explored by university students in a project
with an electric vehicle maker.
The organisations teamed up as part of Polestar’s goal to create a completely
climate-neutral car by 2030, called Polestar 0, with no greenhouse gas
emissions created in its production.
If successful, the vehicle would be the first of its kind and could help cut
transport pollution, which currently represents 21 per cent of Australia’s
carbon emissions.
RMIT Architecture and Urban Design School lecturer Ian Nazareth said the
university partnered with the Swedish automaker as its project involved finding
new ways to reuse, recycle and repurpose substances such as plastic, metals and
waste.
“They’re looking at the process of not just delivering electric vehicles but
also looking at circular economies and processes for materials,” he said.
“There’s a very large percentage of global emissions that come from building
and from automobiles so we have a shared interest in trying to understand how
we can disentangle ourselves from established carbon economies.”
Students focused on an older building tapped for redevelopment, 60 Collins
Street in Melbourne, and identified ways to repurpose materials from it to give
it new life and avoid unnecessary mining."
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