Sustainability
Our planet faces critical challenges – from plastics polluting the oceans, to the urgent need to find more sustainable resources.
But where will new solutions come from? How can we achieve global collaboration to address the big issues? And where can the chemical sciences deliver the biggest impacts?
On this page you can find our perspectives on a range of issues related to Sustainability, including research reports, campaigning materials, and a list of our policy positions and engagement activities.
What's in Sustainability?
View our Sustainability policy summaries
#RSCsustainability
Elements in danger
Did you know that your mobile phone contains at least 30 different naturally-occurring elements?
As consumers we are accumulating more and more technology, and most of us are not recycling this technology at the end of its life. At the Royal Society of Chemistry we commissioned research to demonstrate the scale of the problem.
Read the report and share the digital pack
