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A plan to recycle the unrecyclable | Ashton Cofer

A plan to recycle the unrecyclable | Ashton Cofer

A plan to recycle the unrecyclable | Ashton Cofer

TED Talks Kids and Family · Ashton Cofer

March 27, 20175m 48s

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Show Notes

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.

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