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Greg Liu (at left) has spent the past five or six years working on ways to recycle plastics, and he and his team now believe they have found a solution to a growing global problem. Photo by Spencer Coppage for Virginia Tech.

Greg Liu (at left) has spent the past five or six years working on ways to recycle plastics, and he and his team now believe they have found a solution to a growing global problem. Photo by Spencer Coppage for Virginia Tech.

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