Palomas, David; (2024) From Biomass to Sustainability: A Journey Through Problem-Based Learning Workshops. Presented at: #RSCPoster 2024, Online conference.

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With this poster, I want to embark you on a journey from biomass to sustainability through Problem-Based Learning (PBL). Chemical sustainability impacts our society, and chemists are responsible for showing the way to the new generations of scientists and educators. To give you an example, every year, we drown in 400 million tonnes of plastic waste. By 2050, global primary plastic production is set to skyrocket to 1,100 million tonnes. Yet, less than 10% of this plastic is recycled. In this poster, I want to show you a way to introduce sustainability in a chemistry course with the example of sustainable production of polyethylene terephthalate PET. The whole process is broken down into three workshops where students work in teams to devise ways to produce and recycle PET from biomass. We organise the students in teams that represent start -up companies and we give freedom to our students so they can decide how to name their teams and the roles of every member within their own company. With the help of educational materials online, students work together in this real-life scenario.

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