Creating change for better

I worked on my first sustainability project 23 years ago. We spent a huge amount of time discarding several failed methodologies for synthesising key chemical ingredients from renewable resources. It was not disheartening though; it was uplifting to find that early community of people working tirelessly away in the background to increase the longevity of our planet’s resources.

This kind of work is vital to ensure that future generations have the consumer products we rely on every day. A few years later, it was exciting to see a paper that solved the puzzle I had worked on, with a new catalyst that led to the mainstream production of that family of renewable ingredients.