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Kat Gilmore

Foot waste in a compost pile

 Sustainability April 21, 2022

Organic waste management can reduce greenhouse gasses

microscopy of microbeads degrading

 New Materials September 07, 2021

PHA-based microbeads biologically degrade in wastewater treatment facilities

Jason Locklin, director of the New Materials Institute

 New Materials December 10, 2019

UGA New Materials Institute recognized by Shaw Industries for sustainability efforts

Presenters shared their research at the fourth annual International Symposium on Materials from Renewables.

 New Materials November 27, 2019

Renewable solutions for future materials featured at international symposium

IUCRC-Meeting

 New Materials June 21, 2019

New Materials Institute hosts biannual I/UCRC CB2 meeting

Green Parrot

 Animal Health March 18, 2019

Bromethalin is poisoning the parrots of Telegraph Hill

plastic bottle

 Engineering March 15, 2019

UGA New Materials Institute awarded Walmart Foundation grant

University of Georgia researcher Jason Locklin

 New Materials December 04, 2018

New Materials Institute joins NSF-funded center

loggerhead post-hatchling with a vial containing plastic it excreted

 Environment September 17, 2018

Fractured food chain

resin beads and researcher's hands

 New Materials August 21, 2018

UGA to test first fully biodegradable plastic straw