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MIT waste alliance

MIT Waste Alliance is a Boston-based group focused on the following issues:

Waste management & reduction
Materials recovery
Sustainable materials / product design

Join our community of MIT / Boston area students, researchers, and industry experts:

OTHER NEWS

We are accepting nominations for members that would like to take on a leadership role.
Specifically we are looking to add:

Research and Innovation night Coordinator: Individual would be responsible for organizing the Waste Research and Innovation night (panel, poster session, refreshments, pitches), which takes place during April

To nominate yourself or some else, email wastealliance@mit.edu

ABOUT US

Our Objectives
The MIT Waste Alliance aims to change the perception from waste as end-of-life to waste as a resource through academic and industrial engagement. Systems-thinking is imperative to our mission. To that end, we strive to:

Increase awareness about the state of sustainable materials/product design, waste management and reduction, and materials recovery.
Connect students, alumni, researchers, entrepreneurs, industrial practitioners, and policy makers in order to share knowledge and best practices beyond the bounds of MIT.
Support innovative research and entrepreneurial solutions in waste, materials management, and design for responsible end-of-life management.

Our Strategies

Recognizing that waste management is often context-specific, we encourage the use of local institutions and cities as test-beds for research on and implementation of waste-related innovations.
Hold public research events, journal club meetings, lecture series, and competitions to encourage innovative solutions based on state of the art research and implementation thereof