Credit: Graphic by Jeffrey C. Chase
University of Delaware researchers LaShanda Korley (left) and Thomas Epps, III, are co-authors of a Science magazine article calling for a concerted effort to address the urgent crisis of plastics pollution. With collaborators from the United Kingdom and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California, they call for new approaches to plastics design, production and use, with the goal of keeping plastics out of landfills and waterways, reusing the valuable resources they represent indefinitely in a “circular” plastics economy.