{"id":36419,"date":"2018-01-12T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T14:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=36419"},"modified":"2018-01-12T09:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T14:51:03","slug":"emu-grad-yale-earns-scholarship-recyclable-materials-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/emu-grad-yale-earns-scholarship-recyclable-materials-research\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU grad at Yale earns scholarship for recyclable materials research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Eastern Mennonite University alumnus studying at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has been awarded a scholarship to support his research on automated systems to reduce the waste of recyclable materials.<\/p>\n<p>James Souder received the 2017 Ice River Springs Master\u2019s Scholarship for Sustainability from the Environmental Research &amp; Education Foundation (EREF), a North Carolina-based charity that \u201cawards and recognizes excellence in master\u2019s and doctoral solid waste management research and education.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/07\/grad-school-q-james-souder-13-studying-yale-school-forestry-environmental-studies-2\/\">James Souder&#8217;s preparation at EMU for graduate school<\/a>.<\/aside>\n<p>Souder graduated from EMU in 2013 with an <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/environmental-sustainability\/social\">environmental and social sustainability<\/a> degree and minors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/vaca\/photography\">photography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/biology\/\">biology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/business\/\">economics<\/a>. This spring he will complete a master\u2019s degree in environmental management at Yale with a specialization in industrial ecology and green design.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research to close the loop<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Souder\u2019s research \u201cClosing the Loop and Increasing Material Recovery in Supply Chains and Production Systems\u201d reflects his focus on innovations for waste management and pollution prevention. It involves embedding recycling information on or in products so that automatic sorting machines can reduce human error and ultimately divert recyclables from landfills.<\/p>\n<p>According <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recyclingmagazin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EllenMacArthurFoundation_NewPlasticsEconomy_1_08.jpg\">a report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation<\/a>, only two percent of plastic packaging material is recycled into the same or similar-quality applications, and just eight percent more is recycled into lower-value applications. The rest is leaked to the environment, dumped in landfills, incinerated or lost to recycling processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur consumption patterns as a society are linear, where most products are made, used and finally disposed,\u201d Souder\u00a0 said. \u201cI want to move us towards a circular system, where materials can continue to be used while minimizing our impact on the environment and human health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The topic arose during an earlier project that Souder was working on for a green engineering and sustainable design course at Yale, in which his group designed a prototype for a machine that would separate bar-coded recycling items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a long way to go to improve our collection systems, focusing our efforts on waste streams that have the largest environmental impact throughout the product\u2019s life, and designing our products so the materials can be easily separated and recovered,\u201d Souder said.<\/p>\n<p>The EREF scholarship is funded by Ice River Springs, an Ontario-based company that touts its own plastics recycling facility and \u201cclosed-loop production.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u2018Not surprised\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not surprised at all that James received this award,\u201d said Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=neufeldd\">Doug Graber Neufeld<\/a>, professor of biology and director of\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainableclimatesolutions.org\/\">Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions<\/a>. \u201cJames showed an exceptional ability to combine his skills from different disciplines in addressing real-world problems. He has consistently worked to making a better world, and he exemplifies what we train our students to do once they graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/07\/grad-school-q-james-souder-13-studying-yale-school-forestry-environmental-studies-2\/\">2017 Q&amp;A<\/a>, Souder said that EMU provided him with \u201ca holistic framework of sustainability that incorporated society and economics into environmental topics,\u201d he said. \u201cEMU\u2019s structure allowed me to explore environmental issues from a variety of academic disciplines, ranging from economics to ecology and photography\u2026. The variety of courses I was able to take, along with EMU\u2019s global focus, provided a strong framework which I\u2019m able to build on for further study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from EMU, Souder participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/pulsepittsburgh.org\/\">Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience<\/a> program, and later deferred his acceptance into Yale to serve <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/02\/salt-photojournalist-documents-mcc-and-partner-projects-in-burkina-faso-while-teaching-photography-skills-to-locals\/\">as a photojournalist<\/a> in Burkina Faso through Mennonite Central Committee\u2019s Serving and Learning Together program.<\/p>\n<p>Following completion of his master\u2019s degree at Yale this spring, Souder plans to work on projects that will \u201cmake meaningful and measurable positive environmental changes on a global scale.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Eastern Mennonite University alumnus studying at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has been awarded a scholarship to support his research on automated systems to reduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/emu-grad-yale-earns-scholarship-recyclable-materials-research\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about EMU grad at Yale earns scholarship for recyclable materials research<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,5590,5591,17596,17562,5643,5640,12507],"tags":[10566],"feature":[17427,17241],"class_list":["post-36419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-biology","category-business-and-leadership","category-cscs","category-digest","category-environmental-sustainability","category-suter-science-center","category-vaca","tag-doug-graber-neufeld","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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