Supported by a three-year, $463,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two chemical engineering faculty researchers, Assoc. Profs. Dongming Xie and Hsi-Wu Wong, are developing technology that would help reduce waste PE through upcycling, a process in which discarded materials are converted into products of higher value than the original. #chemicalengineering #nationalsciencefoundation #plastic #reducewaste #sustainability #umass #uml #umasslowell #lowell #grants