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Plastic lumber: Boise State team develops a new method for recycling

What happens when your toddler outgrows all those cars, dinosaurs, playsets and other fun plastic toys?

That’s the question one child asked Boise State University as a part of their Question by Kids series, where a kid asks a question and the University’s 1,400 researchers and faculty tackle the answer.

Dr. Scott Phillips is a professor with the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering, and he joined Idaho Matters to tell the answer.

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