Mres in Recycling Technology

IThe Course:

In September 2001 Swansea University introduced a new one year MRES course in Recycling Technology. The Centre helped to fund this innovative new course, through its Waste Initiative project. This partnership has continued with the Centre now sitting on the Steering Group for the course and acting as a project partner for the research placements.
The course aims to provide the technical knowledge and skills required for the recycling industries, as well as an understanding of the business, economic and legal pressures of manufacturing.

This MRes is the first postgraduate degree scheme directly in recycling, and it places Swansea at the forefront of training in the recycling technology field. A collaborative research project comprises approximately two thirds of the degree course. It is normally linked to an industrial or commercial collaborator and involves an in-depth programme of research on a recycling/environmental topic suggested by, and of direct relevance to, the company.
Course change for 2009-10

The subjects previously covered by this course arenow part of the University's Environmental Management Masters.

Dr. David H. Isaac, Materials Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, SA2 8PP Tel: 01792 295288 Fax: 01792 295244 or e-mail: d.h.isaac@swansea.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

Research

The Environment Centre has copies of all the research completed by students on this course.Below is a selection of titles, click on them to view the summaries. Please contact us if you would like to see the full thesis.

 

Academic Year 2005/6

The Recycling of rubber insole waste material - Davina Bulford-Taylor

The environmental amd economic appraisal of secondary lightweight slate aggregate - Michael Fieldhouse

Prediction of external lifetimes of natural polymers and composites under a wide range of weathering conditions- James Foster

The potential for recycling batteries - Ben George

The production of a lightweight aggregate from quarry waste - Richard Grace

Analysis of the causes of moulding defects in ABS and HIPS polymer recyclate blends - Adam Holder

Public attitudes to civic amenity sites and waste - Paul Robertson

Investigation into fuel ethanol production from waste paper in South Wales - James Welch

Recycling participation rates and public attitudes in Swansea - Hywel Woolf

 

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