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Plastic

Essay | Is the key to solving the plastic problem in our past?
Hannah Stelben

Franklin & Marshall College

Essay | Is the key to solving the plastic problem in our past?
Essay | How a student-led social enterprise inspires youth to think globally, and act locally
Maria Zaharatos

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies

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Celia Ledón: Turning waste into wonderful
Anneliese Forlenza

George Washington University

A person sits a busy work desk holding a tool to a piece of clear plastic. Art supplies cover the desk.
Kids can do it too: How a children’s book can inspire community-based action for the environment
Maria Zaharatos

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies

An illustration of three people bending down near a stream to pick up trash.
Unpacking the packaging potential of mycelium, the mushroom ‘roots’ of many uses
Kala Menchetti Hunter

Northwestern University

A black jar against a dark grey background rests on two white mycelium blocks
Policy Perspectives | Cutting the plastic noose
Madison Paulus

George Washington University

An assortment of small plastic pieces are held in someone's hand with a beach and water in the background.
Systems of dignity: How recyclers are making cents of the bottle bill
Eva Kotobuki Sideris

Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

Systems of dignity: How recyclers are making cents of the bottle bill
NelPlast: Transforming plastic waste into low-cost houses in Ghana
Beverly Ndifoin

Mandela Washington Fellow | Notre Dame University

A man wearing a blue button-down shirt, with a white mask in his shirt pocket, tan pants, and a bright blue hardhat, stands in front of a large stack of primarily gray plastic bricks.

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Designer Daniel Davilla finds the beauty in discarded materials
Elena Walsh Ferré

George Washington University

International student’s idea to repurpose barns becomes agro-plastic recycling company
Sara Wiatrak

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Garden bed with green sprouts covered by a dome of plastic sheeting.
Inside GW’s single-use plastic policy
Georgena Mierow

George Washington University

Sustainability that sticks: GW students make reducing plastic personal
Greer Blount

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

A person in a white shirt, head not pictured, holds a yellow water bottle with several colorful, overlapping stickers.
Three plastic-free ways to start your day
Willow Hasson

George Washington University

A stream of water pours into a metal tea strainer on the lips of a torquoise teacup.
Untangling the web of plastic bag bans
Ryan Bieber

Planet Forward Correspondent | Ithaca College

White plastic bag floating in a body of water.
’It was never really just about plastic drinking straws’: Plastic elimination starts small
Carter Weinhofer

Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | Eckerd College

Yellow straws sit on the display case in front of a menu at a coffee shop.

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