About Us
Unlocking Nature for Sustainable Solutions
With increased concern about mitigating climate change, there is a strong interest in low carbon impact renewable materials as alternative feedstock replacing carbon-intensive fossil fuel derived raw materials for producing chemicals and products to have lower environmental impacts in their product life cycle.
Meanwhile, the pressing global issues associated with rising plastics accumulations and toxic e-wastes are prompting the need to produce products from biodegradable renewable materials to lessen the negative environmental footprint associated with product’s end-of-life disposal. Low carbon renewable materials are an integral part of the solutions to these complex environmental challenges for enhancing global sustainability.
Low Carbon Renewable Materials Centre’s (LCRMC) mission is to promote collaborative research partnerships, enhance internal and external visibility, increase research capacity, attract industry and government funding, and develop educational courses and outreach programs to train students and engage the broader community.
Identify and enable new collaborative research partnerships
Boost internal and external visibility
Increase research capacity through attracting industry and government funding
Develop educational courses and outreach programs to train students and engage the broader community