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Expanding Horizons: How Changing Streams Leverages Social Media for Maximum Reach

We’re on a mission, not just to help companies reduce plastics and carbon in the built environment, but to spread our message to the...

Launch Announcement: The Changing Materials Website is Live!

We're excited to introduce the Changing Materials website, a groundbreaking resource designed to help architects and specifiers reduce the use of plastic in building...

Tackling Plastic Waste in Construction: A Collaborative Effort

Over the past decade, there's been an increasing recognition that our buildings play a crucial role in achieving sustainability goals. This is reflected in...

Call to Action for a Sustainable Construction Industry

The sheer resilience of the 900 sub-postmasters wrongly accused of theft and fraud has gripped the nation over the past few weeks provoking feelings of...

Pioneering research project underway at Wirral Waters to tackle plastic use in the construction industry worldwide

An internationally significant research project has begun at Peel L&P’s Wirral Waters to drive out plastics in the construction industry and lead the development...

How Can Policies and Financial Incentives Impact Plastic Pollution in Construction?

As the population and urbanisation grows, so does the need for houses, buildings and infrastructure. It is estimated that global buildings will double by...

Construction – a plastic pollution legacy in the making?

Of the 400 + million tons of plastic the world produces each year, about 10% ends up contaminating the ocean, waterways and soil. Every...

Circularity and Construction: a brief review in the context of plastic use in construction

The ‘circular economy’ is a term that is widely used, but not always considered accurately. In terms of the building and construction sector, here...

Why construction need to incorporate plastic into the carbon agenda

The construction sector has a vital role in the transition to Net Zero Carbon and the world successfully achieving its global emissions reduction targets....

My Apartment in Plastic

An article by Kathryn Larsen One of the earlier childhood memories I have is holding a Styrofoam plate and a cup at a Fourth...

What are plastic nurdles

What are they? Plastic nurdles are the tiny pellets of plastic produced by petrochemical companies, with specific chemical compositions depending on their final use. ...

CHANGING STREAMS: The science of adaptation (Part 1)

Heart or head? We are all familiar with the spectacle of plastic rubbish, whether in our own kitchens and bathrooms, spread along the roadside...

Conversations with Changing Streams

On Wednesday 16th of February, Changing Streams had the pleasure of hosting our 5th ‘Conversations with Changing Streams’ webinar on ‘creating a sustainable working...

New research project to strip carbon and plastic from our homes

The University of Liverpool’s Changing Streams Research Centre is part of a pioneering research and development project aimed at building carbon zero, plastic-free and fuel-efficient homes...

Changing Streams CIC appointed as CO2nstruct Zero Business Champion

Changing Streams CIC has been appointed as a Business Champion on the Construction sector's CO2nstruct Zero Industry-Change programme. Business Champions have committed to targeted...

New partnership launches ground-breaking pilot scheme in a bid to strip carbon and plastic from our homes

A world-first in the move towards carbon zero, plastic-free and fuel-efficient homes is set to be built in Liverpool due to a pioneering research...

Conversations with Changing Streams 4 – Plastic and our oceans

On Thursday the 25th of November Changing Streams was joined by Susie Crick (Board Director at the Oceanic Research Institute), Philipp Ullmann (Industry 5.0...

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Peel L&P joins forces with Changing Streams CIC to reduce plastics in construction

Regeneration business Peel L&P, responsible for the UK’s largest regeneration projects including Wirral Waters and Liverpool Waters, has become a member of Changing Streams...

Conversations with Changing Streams: Sustainable Alternatives to Plastic in Construction – 28th October 2021

In this episode of Conversations with Changing Streams the theme of Sustainable alternatives to plastic materials used in construction was discussed by a varied...

Conversations with Changing Streams: Sources and Uses of Plastic in Construction

Catch up on the second of our monthly webinars hosted by Brendon Kenny. Were we explored the sources and uses of plastics within the...

Conversations with Changing Streams – Part 1 Plastic Free July Special

In June we hosted our first Conversations with Changing Streams event. This was the first in a series of webinars we will be hosting...

The implications of plastic pollution as seen by oceanographer and Changing Streams Co-Founder and Director Professor Jonathan Sharples

A healthy ocean is fundamental to our existence. That is not hyperbole – life on our planet is fundamentally dependent on having a healthy...

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