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A plan to recycle the unrecyclable

Ashton Cofer · TED

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About

From packing peanuts to disposable coffee cups, each year the US alone produces some two billion pounds of Styrofoam -- none of which can be recycled. Frustrated by this waste of resources and landfill space, Ashton Cofer and his science fair teammates developed a heating treatment to break down used Styrofoam into something useful. Learn more out their original design.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed Weekend
Speaker
Ashton Cofer
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Chemistry, Engineering, Earth and environment, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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