Photo: Max Romey
Graduate and post-graduate students from Illinois and Massachusetts sailed to Alaska in May to help collect 15,000 pounds of plastic debris from beaches in southeastern Alaska. They were part of the Ocean Plastics Recovery project to find local solutions to a global crisis, supported by Northwestern University’s Paula M. Trienees Institute for Sustainability and Energy. The project, led by plastics recycling expert Scott Farling and former Coast Guardsman Andy Schroeder, has been removing marine debris from Alaska’s coastline since 2018. Once OPR finishes sorting the debris by plastic type, samples will be shipped to Logan Fenimore, a doctoral candidate who researches how to turn end-of-life plastics into covalent adaptable networks, which are physically stronger than plastics but can still be recycled.
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