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"Veena Sahajwalla picks her way through the family rubbish bins, plundering
them before they get out the door.
She keeps a collection of rubbish in her house. Her car is full of garbage that
she takes to work. She gets excited at landfill dumps, at all the good stuff
she finds.
"She's obsessed with waste," says her husband, Rama Mahapatra.
But it is not waste to her, even if she is known as the Waste Queen. Professor
Sahajwalla is a revolutionary, an inventor who sees rubbish as an opportunity.
"Waste is really one of those untapped resources just waiting to be harnessed,"
she says.
For Professor Sahajwalla, an empty chip packet is not just an empty chip
packet, it is lined with aluminium, and she can use that. It also handily helps
her "feel a bit less guilty" about eating chips, her regular weekend
indulgence."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
