Laszlo Varga is seconded to the Ohio State University in the framework of the Green-Map Project (Novel Green Polymeric Materials for Medical Packaging and Disposables to Improve Hospital Sustainability). His sending institute is the Department of Polymer Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where he is currently working on his Ph.D. thesis. Here at the Ohio State University, Laszlo will participate in activities related to the degradation of biopolymers.