Sustainability Metrics – upcoming challenges for FIs
Over the past year, TransFIRe have been working alongside North Lincolnshire Council, in order to create a ten-month action plan to tackle the subject of sustainability performance. The action plan promotes guided peer-to-peer learning by [...]
TFI Network+ Brochure
The TFI Network+, partners of TransFIRe, have just published the first edition of their brochure, summarising the results and impact of 28 completed small projects. These projects, including projects worked on by TransFIRe team members, [...]
Biobased coatings for paper packaging
Paper based packaging has seen an increase in use recently, driven by the increase in home deliveries and online shopping. As a renewable and biodegradable source of packaging it has a number of advantages over [...]
The Aluminium Action Plan: Charting a Sustainable Path Forward
The aluminium industry, with its extensive global influence and importance, finds itself at a crucial crossroads. Recognising the vast potential of this metal in the shift towards a circular economy, the Aluminium Action Plan was [...]
The Royal Mint’s Journey in Electronic Waste Management
TransFIRe researcher, Dr Masoud Ahmadinia, has recently finished a project working with The Royal Mint on their innovative initiative to extract precious metals from the circuit boards of electronic waste, such as laptops and mobile [...]
Mapping resource consumption and emissions in the Foundation Industries
Understanding the intricate flows of resource consumption and emissions within various industries is paramount in pursuing a sustainable future. As part of TransFIRe’s Work Stream 1 (WS1), we are working on a ground-breaking study that [...]
Embedding TransFIRe within industry
Secondments are a brilliant way of offering professional benefits to both companies and employees, in our case researchers, alike. For industry, it can be an opportunity to bring someone new into their company, with a [...]
Resource efficiency and energy efficiency in the Portuguese ceramic industry
TFI Network+ News The Portuguese ceramic industry constitutes 0.5% of Gross Domestic Product in Portugal, far higher than most other European nations, and thus it is essential this sector is decarbonised, cost-effectively to preserve jobs [...]
Barriers and enablers for use of compressed earth blocks
Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs) are a low carbon, low cost construction product that are considered by many to be the go-to sustainable masonry wall solution for low-cost buildings. However, although their use was prototyped in [...]