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Asked by bookworm to Tonia, Sam, Emily, Ejay, Edgars, Charnett on 13 Jun 2019.
Question: what impact does your job have on the environment and climate change?
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Charnett Chau answered on 13 Jun 2019:
My day to day job is on evaluating the environmental impact of things. I then make recommendations on how to improve it. My project right now is to reduce impact of plastic waste and reducing the need to make new plastic purely because making it causes a lot of green house has emissions and contribute a lot to climate change!
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Ejay Nsugbe answered on 13 Jun 2019:
No direct environmental impacts, more societal impacts-in the sense that it allows for a more inclusive society by supporting disabled/misfortuned individuals.
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Emily McNee answered on 13 Jun 2019:
The amount of paperwork we create as part of being a regulated industry contributes to climate change. We are working hard to reduce our impact through initiatives like local supply chains and moving to digital methods of document control
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Tonia Tzemanaki answered on 13 Jun 2019:
Robotics can be used as a positive measure to combat a lot of this problems, e.g. to monitor pollution, safeguard oceans, forest and wildlife etc.
Here are some links that can be useful for more information:
Laying the ground for robotic strategies in environmental protection
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Edgars Kelmers answered on 14 Jun 2019:
No impact on saving nature, just to help people with illnesses.
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Sam Gaughan answered on 14 Jun 2019:
If we can learn enough about enzymes to integrate them into more chemical processes that will provide greener solutions to a lot of our chemical and medicinal needs. Enzymes usually offer the same reaction with less harsh conditions such as lower temperatures and pressures, and also replace the often expensive and unsustainable rare metal catalysts like platinum. This not only reduces the cost but also the environmental impact of the reaction.
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