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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 Process

Safety? Day Condition Maximum Reading 12/ 1/ 17 Plates and 5.8 ppm Oil S oap 1/ 19/ 18 Plates, Bags, 1.6 ppm and Oil S oap 1/ 26/ 18 >2 ppm

Failures

Risks and Rewards

Potential  Building Material  Long boards  S urfboards  Benches  Tabletops  Furniture  Jobs and Humanitarian Aid  Art

Future Experimentation  Amount of Impact it can Withstand  Different Methods of Creation  Different Materials  Temperature of Oven  Type 2 vs. Type 4 vs. Mixed  Time in Oven  Flexibility  Different ways of Folding Bags  Weight Bearing Capacity  Bag Pattern Differences  Insulation Properties  Construction Potential  Resistance to the environment  Adhesion  UV Radiation  Holding up to Construction  Acid Rain Equipment  S and  S oil Microbes

Thank Y ou! UNCW Environmental Health and Safety Plastic Ocean Project- Research Committee