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boolean">Ongoing</div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-long"> While plastics have yielded immense benefits to society, discarded plastics or plastic pollution has become a pervasive highly visible problem especially in the </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="nist-field__item"> <article role="article" about="/programs-projects/and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances-pfas" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20230706230721/https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances-pfas" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20230706230721im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2022/09/12/water_glass.png?itok=-yqisx6J" width="100" height="71" alt="Water" typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a 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