Re Engineering Mission

Re-engineer the stewardship of limited materials to build a resource-efficient economy

The Challenge

Between 2030 and 2050 the world completes the inevitable transition from a linear “take-make-dispose” industrial system to a more circular economy where reducing, reusing and recycling of resources occurs throughout the processes of design, production, circulation and consumption of all products.

The challenge today is launching systems that share stewardship of critical resources. 

The wastes of today have been minimised and are now an essential component of a resource-efficient system that has provided a high standard of living and has had a major impact on achieving climate change and wider sustainability milestones.

Mission Development

We will advance underpinning fundamental science, develop innovative technologies, optimise value chains for ultimate resource efficiency, conduct holistic product and service design, and demonstrate resource-efficient concepts across a variety of important sectors through user-led and co-designed applications.   

Our mission's vision is to: 

• Lead the world in resource-efficient economy research   

• Redefine our relationship with materials.   

• Launch systems that share stewardship of critical resources.   

• Deliver utility without pollution. 

We foresee there to be several cross-faculty programmes emerging out of each mission. The first area of focus for the Re-Engineering mission is Sustainable Fashion & Textiles.

Get involved

If you are interested to get involved or want to discuss this mission with us, please get in touch;

You can email us at: sustainable-convergence@imperial.ac.uk

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