Dr Randa Kachef
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr. Randa L. Kachef is an urban waste and sustainability expert, whose work and research are focused around reducing environmental impacts through infrastructure, product innovation and policy change. Her research spans a variety of topics within waste reduction, particularly litter, material recovery, and sewage. An experienced science communicator with a background in corporate marketing, she is a frequent consultant and commentator on topics where science and policy overlap.
Web profiles
Professional memberships
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Royal Geographical Society
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Royal Society of Chemistry
Honours and awards
- Research Impact Award King's College London, August 2022
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Waste
- Sustainability
- Litter
- Policy
- Sewage
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching on modules of environmental policy, pollution, climate change, and geomorphology.
Teaching modules
- Environment and Policy
- Research Methods
- Environmental Processes
- Environmental Science for Environmental Management
- Humans and the Environment
- Critical Infrastructures for Sustainability - London Thames Fieldtrip
- Climate Change: Science and Mitigation
- Climate and Society: past, present and future
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Kachef, Randa and Chadwick, M.A. (2025) Litter impact index: a proposed weighting of litter items to inform sustainable packaging development and extended producer responsibility. Journal of Cleaner Production 495, pp. 145069. ISSN 0959-6526.
- Kachef, Randa and Chan, K. and Main, B.E. and Chadwick, M.A. (2025) Transfer dynamics of litter: introduction to new vectors in the mobility of terrestrial litter. Next Research 2 (2), pp. 100193. ISSN 3050-4759.
- Kachef, Randa (2025) Forget the facts: a humanistic approach to addressing contemporary issues in urban waste management. Geography 110 (1), pp. 39-44. ISSN 0016-7487.
- Kachef, Randa (2025) Donald Trump wants to bring back plastic straws, but the world is going in another direction. The Conversation
- Kachef, Randa and Chadwick, M.A. (2024) Regional variations in urban trash: connections between litter communities and place. Sustainability 16 (17), pp. 7741. ISSN 2071-1050.
- Kachef, Randa (2024) Why plastic bottles now have their caps attached. The Conversation
- Kachef, Randa (2024) Polite littering is a rubbish problem - Here's why the British approach to tackling clean ups is not working. The Conversation
- Kachef, Randa (2024) A ban on plastic wet wipes may lead to more river pollution, not less. The Conversation
- Kachef, Randa (2024) Three water companies face big fines for sewage spills - it won't do any good unless our whole approach to waste changes. The Conversation
- Kachef, Randa and Chadwick, M.A. (2023) Not all litter is littered: an exploration of unintentional means of public waste generation. Environmental Challenges 13, pp. 100756. ISSN 2667-0100.
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Business and community
Business and community
I have media training.
Media
I am happy to receive enquiries from the media on the following topics:
- Waste
- Sewage
- Plastic
- Policy
- Wet wipes
- Litter
- Littering