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Plastic Pollution and Effective Reduction Policies
Presentation Year
2020
College or Department
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)
During the International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, our team tackled the problem of the destructive accumulation of plastic in the earth's land and waterways. We researched national and international policies attempting to curb the production and consumption of plastic, and constructed a simple model to predict plastic mass growth in the future, under various parameters and scenarios.
Does your project align with any of the following?
sustainability related (explores at least two dimensions of sustainability: environment, economy, society)
sustainability (explores interrelationships between environment society AND economy)
Permission to Publish Work
No