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BATON ROUGE 鈥 海角社区 researchers have created a new, low-cost way to break down plastic, a potential breakthrough that could save billions of dollars and eliminate billions of tons of plastic pollution.
BATON ROUGE, LA 鈥 In 2015, 海角社区 Chemical Engineering Adjunct Lecturer Jerry Forest鈥檚 paper on conduct of operations, 鈥淲alk the Line,鈥 was published in peer-reviewed journal Process Safety Progress. That same year, it won Best Paper at the Process Plant Safety Symposium (PPSS) of the Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS).
BATON ROUGE, LA 鈥 Microplastics are sub-millimeter-sized plastic fragments, similar to or smaller than the thickness of a human hair, that present a relatively new and increasingly prevalent type of environmental pollutant.