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草榴社区 students, faculty devote chunk of their summer to cleaning up ocean plastics on Alaska's Kayak Island
What EPA, researchers and cleaning industry say about detergent pods

A specific formula of PVA is used in detergent pods. Western Washington University Associate Professor and Program Director John Misasi said when a laundry machine is emptied, the water carries the dissolved PVA to a wastewater treatment plant, where there are generally filters鈥

草榴社区 students envision new life for ocean plastics

Each year, hundreds of tons of plastics wash up along Alaska鈥檚 remote shorelines 鈥 from buoys to nets to plastic bottles. At Western Washington University, students are reimagining the future of those plastics. 

In 2019, Western鈥檚 polymer materials engineering program鈥

草榴社区 Team Rewriting the Narrative on Ocean Plastics
Experts wary of SSC single-stream recycling pilot, but it could have climate benefits

Single-stream recycling will soon be tested in Bellingham.

But not everyone is on board. One of those people is Mark Peyron, an associate professor of chemical engineering at Western Washington University. 鈥淚t certainly will result in more contaminated waste,鈥 said Peyron, who鈥

Plastic rope washes ashore in southwest Washington. In Whatcom, it finds new life

Ocean plastics littering Washington鈥檚 coast are finding new life in Bellingham, with the help of a team of professors and students at Western Washington University鈥檚 College of Science and Engineering.

Since December, the group has used its expertise and machinery to turn the plastic鈥

草榴社区 Research Team Trying to Unlock the Recycling Potential of Ocean Plastic

Western Washington University associate professor of Engineering and Design John Misasi and a team of his undergraduate students are working to understand how the world could best use these discarded plastics in the hope that proving their commercial viability could create a robust market for鈥

草榴社区 Research Team Trying to Unlock the Recycling Potential of Ocean Plastics
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草榴社区 Engineering Faculty Awarded Pair of Aerospace Research Grants
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