A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam | Ashton Cofer

A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam | Ashton Cofer

A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam | Ashton Cofer
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vor 7 Jahren
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. Check out their original design, which won the Scientific American Innovator Award from Google Science Fair.
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