• Question: do you hurt the environment in your work?

    Asked by 834enqm47 to Dan, Jennifer, Luke, Martin, sakshisharda on 11 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Luke Williams

      Luke Williams answered on 11 Mar 2018:

      No, I don’t think so. I don’t do anything differently to many other people. I do travel quite a bit though, which will cause some pollution.

      In my previous job I was part of a Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, where we were working specifically to find new technologies to help the environment. Friends of mine worked on solar panels, for example. I was investigating new ways of making medicines using biology rather than chemistry, which would have been more sustainable.

    • Photo: Sakshi Sharda

      Sakshi Sharda answered on 13 Mar 2018:

      Maybe, not directly, but in one way or another when we use resources for experiments, we have to dispose them and that can create pollution. For instance, much of the lab equipment we use can be used only once, and it must be thrown, so obviously it lands up somewhere or it ends up being burnt which unfortunately creates pollution 🙁 That can be a downside to doing science experiments sometimes ;(

    • Photo: Martin Lindley

      Martin Lindley answered on 14 Mar 2018:

      My work is not a big impact on the environment.

      I al trying to measure how you feel in order to help you learn.

      The only impact I would have is from the analytical chemistry that we do and that is looked after very carefully.

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