Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel

Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about a restoration project to add 54 square kilometers back to the coast of Louisiana by allowing the Mississippi River to resume delivering sediment to sinking regions.

Also on this week’s show, Dion Vlachos, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, and director of the Delaware Energy Institute, joins Sarah to talk about his Science Advances paper on a low-temperature process to convert different kinds of plastic to fuels, like gasoline and jet fuel.  

This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.

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[Image: Shannon Dosemagen/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

Authors: Warren Cornwall; Sarah Crespi

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