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(image courtesy of claudia s. lópez/oregon health & science university)
vicki deng
planet forward senior correspondent | reed college
october 25, 2018
the unseen heroes to our plastic waste
we all know the problem with plastic: it’s everywhere and it’ll be everywhere for a really long time. advertised for its disposability and convenience, plastic has been in mass production since the 1870s without anyone thinking about how to get rid of it.
luckily, we may have found the hero to this problem — and you would’ve never seen it coming. click on the story below to learn about how the research project of recent college graduate morgan vague may help combat our plastic waste:
