Americans generate about 30 percent of the world’s municipal solid waste, and in 2012, every American produced an average of 4.38 pounds of waste per day. After composting and recycling, more than 18 percent of that waste is attributed to plastics alone. This environmental impact is exacerbated by the fact that much packaging cannot be recycled because it consists of multiple layers of different plastics. What can we, at Beloit College, do about this?