No doubt you’ve noticed just how much plastic waste ends up on the side of the road or in landfills. What if something could be done to reuse the material in other beneficial ways.That’s the focus of Re-Du, one of the participants in Cohort 7 of the Innovation Crossroads program operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The company was founded by MD “Arif” Arifuzzaman, a native of Bangladesh who invented an effective organocatalyst while a Post Doc at the lab.