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Experts Advocate Eventual End to Single-Use Plastics, but Composites May Be Safe

Experts Advocate Eventual End to Single-Use Plastics, but Composites May Be Safe
A hungry elephant searches through piles of rubbish for food in West Bengal, India, highlighting the harsh reality of the world’s plastic pollution crisis. Pranab Das / CATERS NEWS
Nathan Worcester
Nathan Worcester
3/30/2023|Updated: 3/30/2023
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A Senate hearing on March 30 underscored the widespread concern about single-use plastics, as experts and lawmakers discussed plastics pollution, plastic recycling, and the potential hazards of outsourcing plastics production to China.

Hota GangaRao, a composites specialist and professor at West Virginia University, and Chelsea Rochman, an ecologist and professor at the University of Toronto, both said single-use plastics may need to become a thing of the past, at least at some point to come.

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