Waste valorisation is any industrial process aimed at reusing or recycling waste materials to generate useful products or energy. Demand for renewable chemicals and fuels are moving manufacturing towards higher sustainability, to not only improve cost-effectiveness, but also meet the growing demands and expectations of their customers. This project will investigate ways of using waste material from the pulp and agriculture industries, through which a wide variety of plant polymers are currently discarded. These polysaccharides could be used to enhance existing material production processes or to create novel materials with new applications. We urgently need a solution to plastic waste and the consumption of fossil fuels. Biopolymers will form an essential part of the answer to this growing problem. This project will combine physics and biology to understand how the various plant polymers interact, learning from nature, to improve and create new sustainable industrial processes.