A young inventor’s plan to recycle Styrofaom

FROM packing peanuts to disposable coffee cups, each year the world produces some billions of kilograms of Styrofoam — none of which can be recycled.
Frustrated by this waste of resources and landfill space, Ashton Cofer and his science fair teammates developed a heating treatment to break down used Styrofoam into something useful.
Check out their original design, which won both the FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award and the Scientific American Innovator Award from Google Science Fair.
For full TED video, visit:
https://www.ted.com/talks/ashton_cofer_a_young_inventor_s_plan_to_recycle_styrofoam