{"id":16507,"date":"2021-08-03T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T01:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=16507"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T01:19:42","slug":"arc-funding-boost-for-a-clean-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2021\/08\/03\/arc-funding-boost-for-a-clean-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"ARC funding boost for a clean planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research into green technologies has received funding as part of the Australia Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects, with two projects featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/justin.chalker\">Associate Professor Justin Chalker and <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/louisa.esdaile\">Professor Louisa Esdaile<\/a> from the College of Science and Engineering, along with Mr Kevin Fell from commercial collaborator Clean Earth Technologies, being awarded grants in the third round of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Examining new technologies for electronic waste recycling has received $659,669, to provide commercially viable methods for recycling eletronic waste (e-waste). The project aims to generate new knowledge in the separation and recovery of gold, silver and palladium, and develop new capabilities for Australia&#8217;s e-waste recycling industry, including the potential to convert e-waste plastic into construction material.<\/p>\n<p>The Chalker Lab and partners were also awarded $558,984 for a second project entitled &#8220;Polymer technologies for oil spill remeditation and slow-release fertilisers,&#8221; with an aim to evaluate a patented sulfur polymer in commercial oil spill remediation and slow-release fertilisers.<\/p>\n<p>Key objectives of this project will include determining how the polymer degrades, assessing the effectiveness of the polymer in oil spill sorption and the polymer as a matrix for slow-release fertilisers. The team hopes to develop new methods for deploying the polymer in oil spill cleanup, and use the polymer in new fertilisers that prevent nutrient waste and runoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research into green technologies has received funding as part of the Australia Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects, with two projects featuring Associate Professor Justin Chalker and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4182,"featured_media":16508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7777],"tags":[30799,30800],"class_list":["post-16507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-science-and-engineering","tag-associate-professor-justin-chalker","tag-professor-louisa-esdaile"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}