New recyclable plastic can break its molecular bonds and start over

Plastics are useful and ubiquitous – but that's not always a good combination. The vast majority of plastic waste can't be recycled, meaning it ends up in landfills at best or the ocean at worst. To help curb the problem, researchers at Berkeley Lab have now designed a new type of plastic that can apparently be reduced right back to its molecular parts, before being remade over and over.

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Category: Materials

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• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Materials
• Plastic
• Plastics
• Plastic waste

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2Yc9VVO