Episode 4 - One Advisor's Trash is a Grad Student's PhD!

This time we interview grad student Hanning Jiang, undergraduate Erik Medina, and Prof. Erin Stache to talk about the innovative ways they have transformed plastic waste into commodity products!

Episode 3! Holiday special featuring our very own Erin Stache. We discuss some fun topics related to plastics in holiday magic, Santa Claus' involvement in plastic production, and human sacrifice!

More on the history of polymers and all about RICs!

Welcome to Episode 1! In this episode, our hosts Clotilde and Lejla jump right in to the basics of polymer chemistry, defining some basic terms which we will carry forward. We then begin to introduce the first plastics in the Resin Identification Codes, which detail the most common types of plastics.