{"id":7,"date":"2021-07-02T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolar.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2021-07-02T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:02:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The WASTE Lab &#8211; Waste Applied in Science Technology &amp; Engineering was established in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2008 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">under the belief that marrying sustainability with food processing, catalysts and effective waste management is the path to innovative and environmentally friendly <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">engineering<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> solutions. Waste is a pressing economic, environmental and political issue; and unfortunately, it\u2019s inevitable. All processes have waste, from the cars we drive to the clothes we wear. Through research, outreach<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and teaching activities, the WASTE lab aims to minimize the production of waste, and start treating the end product of many processes as the beginning to solving problems our society faces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Kolar is the primary investigator and frequently collaborates with<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drs. <a href=\"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/people\/classen\/\">John Classen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/people\/sbshah3\/\">Sanjay Shah<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/people\/wjsagues\/\"> Joe Sagues<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The WASTE Lab &#8211; Waste Applied in Science Technology &amp; Engineering was established in 2008 under the belief that marrying sustainability with food processing,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":122,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-landing.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}