News
7 May 2021
A University of Strathclyde student has helped a global oil and gas firm to cut waste by repurposing old personal protective equipment (PPE).
With more than 20,000 employees worldwide TechnipFMC goes through a large amount of PPE which at the end of its useful life is normally sent to landfill.
As part of a class assignment for her MSc Environmental Entrepreneurship in Practice programme, Strathclyde Business School student Louise Thomson, from Dunoon, worked with the company to identify opportunities to reduce waste.
She hit upon the idea of sending old protective overalls to survival training centres where they could be used as insulation layers during exercises.