Repurposed trash can be a valuable, job-generating resource, researcher Veena Sahajwalla says. Photo: Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS

Council clean-ups should be more than an opportunity to bolster landfills as items such as old mattresses could be part of a green manufacturing revolution, a lauded researcher says.

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Veena Sahajwalla from the University of NSW will address the National Press Club on Tuesday as part of her campaign for Australia to rethink how waste can be used as a valuable resource to create jobs.

The multi-award-winning researcher says her work creating facilities known as "M

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