Biodesign Challenge

Dec 5, 2024 | issues.org | Tom Burroughs |Biodesign Challenge

Negotiators seeking the first legally binding treaty on global plastics pollution recently failed to reach agreement, deciding only to resume talks next year. But some students aren’t waiting. In Issues, two teams of college students taking part in the Biodesign Challenge describe their efforts to get at the problem by reducing the need for conventional petrochemical-based plastics or making them environmentally safer.