Academic Projects

Capstone Project

Maricopa County Recycling: Where Does It All Go?

Spring 2021

Enacted in January 2018, China's "National Sword Policy" did a lot to destabilize the global recycling market. This technical paper focuses on the impact of this policy on plastic recycling in Maricopa County.

Capstone Document

Environmental and Resource Management Club

Vice President

Fall 2020 - Spring 2021

Helped organize the following volunteer activities for ASU:

Waste Audit with the Waste Department at the Polytechnic campus
Members made recommendations to ASU’s Climate Change Resilience team
Have members help at Polytechnic’s Garden Commons

Actively participated in planning all club-related activities such as meetings, contests, and club-related merchandise distribution.

Project Cities

City of Glendale - Recycling Program Enhancement Plan

Group 1 Leader

Fall 2019

Lead a research group in a Sustainable Solid Waste Management class project for the City of Glendale to improve and enhance their recycling program. Our focus was on how to decrease contamination and the amount of unrecyclable waste shipped from MRFs to landfills. I presented our groups’ section at the Project Cities event.

ASU Project Cities