Work in progress

Last week I visited Dr. Claire Barlow and her student Amanda Wycherley, in the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge. Amanda is working on a post-graduate project, trying to meld together waste fabric and plastics.

The idea is to find a method of making a composite material which can be used as insulation, and thereby creating a financial incentive for recycling.
They are currently working on High Density Polyethylene (HDPE, which is coded 2) and Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE, coded 4) so I was delighted to be able to give them some pots and bottle lids from our stash of non-reduceable waste.