Spring 2027

Plastics Recycling and Sustainability

Examines sustainability and recycling of plastics and polymeric materials, analyzing environmental impacts via life cycle assessment and evaluating media coverage.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Kristoffer StokesNicole Zacharia

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze the life cycle of a plastic product and the related causes of and solutions for recycling and sustainability issues.

  • Assess benefits and costs of sustainability planning in the public and private sectors.

  • Explain the environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges associated with plastics manufacture, use and disposal.

  • Apply sustainability principles to address the challenges of plastics disposal, especially in developing countries.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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E P D 634 or 636

EPD 639

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KRISTOFFER STOKES is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

NICOLE ZACHARIA is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Traditional and emerging recycling technologies, bio-based and degradable plastics
  • Media coverage and greenwashing

Skills

  • Life cycle analysis of plastic products
  • Critical evaluation of media coverage regarding greenwashing

Grades

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Catalog & offerings

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EPD 639 · Spring 2027

Plastics Recycling and Sustainability

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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