Materials Engineering Department at the University of Technology held a seminar on the environmental effects of plastic waste and the engineering methods for recycling them, in which Asst.Prof.Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Hussain delivered a lecture and discussed the problem of massive accumulation of plastic waste and engineering methods in reuse and recycling and also the global investment in waste and its relation to the Iraq local reality.

Dr.Mohammed also presented the most important engineering and chemical methods for waste treatment and conversion of materials of high industrial value in the provision of materials and energy.