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From Bags to Boards The Experimentation Behind the Recycled Building Material Bag Board Megan Romanchok, 2018 In the United States alone, the EPA estimates that 380 BILLION plastic bags PER YEAR are used once and then discarded. The

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From Bags to Boards

The Experimentation Behind the Recycled Building Material “Bag Board”

Megan Romanchok, 2018

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In the United States alone, the EPA estimates that 380 BILLION plastic bags PER YEAR are used

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The Process

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Safety?

Day Condition Maximum Reading 12/ 1/ 17 Plates and Oil S

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5.8 ppm 1/ 19/ 18 Plates, Bags, and Oil S

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1.6 ppm 1/ 26/ 18 >2 ppm

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Failures

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Risks and Rewards

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Potential

 Building Material  Long boards  S

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 Benches  Tabletops  Furniture  Jobs and Humanitarian Aid  Art

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Future Experimentation

 Different Materials  Type 2 vs. Type 4 vs. Mixed  Flexibility  Weight Bearing Capacity  Insulation Properties  Construction Potential  Adhesion  Holding up to Construction

Equipment

 Amount of Impact it can Withstand  Different Methods of Creation  Temperature of Oven  Time in Oven  Different ways of Folding Bags  Bag Pattern Differences  Resistance to the environment  UV Radiation  Acid Rain  S

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UNCW Environmental Health and Safety Plastic Ocean Project- Research Committee

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