Opinion
Getting into It Plastic products are an everyday part of life: from the to-go cup of our morning coffee and the polyester in our jackets, to its use in large scale manufacturing processes or medical treatments. Plastics, with their robustness, inexpensiveness, and versatility are certainly a staple of modern life:
Science & Tech
The Complete Complex is the future of recycling. Housing everything from employee sorting and AI robots to pick away those hard to distinguish plastics. Once the plastics are sorted and flow to their respective areas, they are stored and processed with the many advancing recycling techniques. To then be ready
Special Interest
With focusing on the future of recycling, the articles that I read influenced my idea of Pocket Recycling Parks. Similarly to a regular pocket park, which is green space in a smaller urban area, it provides bins to dispose of plastic waste that people aren't quite sure how
Arts & Lifestyle
Sprouting Tomorrow is an educational box subscription geared towards kids of different ages with activities on reducing, reusing, and recycling. Hoping to spread educational awareness on what can be recycled and practices that could carry on as they grow into adulthood. There would be little wooden toys, engaging puzzles, and
Business
Waste Watch is a platform that allows companies to put their by-products, overstock, or other waste streams that they create up for sale to potentially be the supply for another business. Creating this seamless space for business communities to work together and share resources. The website and app would allow
Numbers
My capstone team worked together when creating our survey, we were interested to learn about how individuals and businesses within the Columbus area felt about the topic of recycling as well as their community. The NDC team was a big help with distributing the survey, they had offered to send
Special Interest
CDME - Site visit * Point of Contact: Lili Hurst * September 2nd, 2025 * Facilitators: Everyone * Writer: Jessica Our team visited CDME, the Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence, to see how a local Laboratory Coordinator is trying to tackle the PLA waste issue. Lili Hurst has reached out to many schools
Special Interest
With my special interest being the future of recycling, the issue of the plastics in waterways appeared on my radar. In Columbus we have many clubs and organizations focusing on cleaning the watershed like with FLOW (Friends of the Lower Olentangy river Watershed) or the river specifically with Scioto Sweep.
Special Interest
With my special interest being the future of recycling, it seemed fitting that I came across an article for an influencer dedicated to increasing engagement with recycling. Sara Samaniego is a recycling Youtuber dedicated to spreading awareness on how to recycle while also destigmatizing the independent recyclers that the country
Special Interest
With my special interest being the future of recycling, I thought it was fitting to look into the future of Columbus as a whole after a weekly meeting with our teams point of contact, Glennon. Her background is in City and Regional Planning and she has a lot of insightful
Special Interest
My special interest is focusing on the future of recycling. This article especially caught my eye because of it's unique project goal of taking on items that do not usually pass typical recycling facilities standards resulting in a trip to the landfill. One resource stream being plastic film
Special Interest
My special interest is focusing on the future of recycling. This article looks at the innovative techniques that are forming to potentially solve the pollution and material toll that is accumulating with the lack of plastic recycling. Researchers from Wisconsin are processing plastics to hopefully turn them into higher valued