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Sept. 24, 2007
Contact: Bob Adams
(425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu
Free environmental chemistry lecture at BCC Oct. 8:
Learn how plastics go from
“garbage” to useful “stuff”
BELLEVUE, WASH. – Nationally known environmental chemist Dr. William F. Carroll, Jr., an expert on recycling of plastics, will present a free public lecture at Bellevue Community College (BCC) Oct. 8.
Entitled, “How Plastics Go From Garbage to Stuff,” the lecture begins at 6 p.m. in room 201 of the college’s N Building, at the south end of BCC’s main campus.
Dr. Carroll will discuss the plastics recycling process from start to finish, including the four essential steps of collection, separation, reprocessing and remanufacture.
Holder of two patents and author of more than 40 publications in chemistry, Dr. Carroll has served on expert groups commissioned by the United Nations Environmental Program, the State of Florida and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
Dr. Carroll is employed by OxyChem, where as vice president for chlorovinyl issues he focuses on public policy and communications related to chlorine and PVC. He also serves as an adjunct professor of chemistry at Indiana University.
Dr. Carroll’s lecture is sponsored jointly by the American Chemical Society of Puget Sound and the Bellevue Community College Science Department.
Bellevue Community College’s main campus is located at 3000 Landerholm Circle S.E., Bellevue, off 148th Ave. S.E.
For further information, please call (425) 564-3154.
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