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| 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… |
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| WWU students envision new life for ocean plastics | Each year, hundreds of tons of plastics wash up along Alaska’s remote shorelines — from buoys to nets to plastic bottles. At Western Washington University, students are reimagining the future of those plastics. In 2019, Western’s polymer materials engineering program… |
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| WWU 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. “It certainly will result in more contaminated waste,” said Peyron, who… |
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| Plastic rope washes ashore in southwest Washington. In Whatcom, it finds new life | Ocean plastics littering Washington’s coast are finding new life in Bellingham, with the help of a team of professors and students at Western Washington University’s College of Science and Engineering. Since December, the group has used its expertise and machinery to turn the plastic… |
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| WWU 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… |
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| WWU Research Team Trying to Unlock the Recycling Potential of Ocean Plastics | |||
| WWU’s John Misasi brings standout students to New Orleans symposium | |||
| WWU Engineering Faculty Awarded Pair of Aerospace Research Grants | |||
| Plastics engineering students use new process to create 3D printing filaments |
