Principal investigator of the Ethical Choice Education Lab, Dr. Adam Feltz, received special recognition from OU’s Vice President for Research and Partnerships office on being part of the team on the NSF-funded project “Tuning Catalyst Design to Recycle Mixed Polymer Streams”. This cross-department collaboration aims to establish a cost-effective way to recycle multilayer plastics which…
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ECEL Attends Earth Month Citywide Styrofoam Collection Event
On Saturday, April 17th, the First Presbyterian Church hosted an earth month citywide styrofoam collection event. Because styrofoam cannot be recycled along with other recyclables in Norman, this event allowed individuals to bring their styrofoam to be properly recycled. This styrofoam waste has to be marked with the #6 in the recycling symbol, could be…
$2 Million NSF Grant to Explore Polymer Recycling Technologies
Dr. Adam Feltz was appointed to work on a collaborative five-year NSF grant alongside professors in the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering. With the help of graduate student, Jenna Holt, their goal is to assess public knowledge on plastic recycling before introducing a new recycling program that attempts to send…
