Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...
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Scientists create new plastic that self-destructs after use in breakthrough research
The research team used a 'new chemical strategy' to create plastic that would degrade naturally.
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Promising breakthrough creates plastics that self-deconstruct on cue: Study
They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in ...
Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...
The world’s plastic crisis isn’t simply environmental; it’s existential. A recent study in the journal Nature Medicine found that brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics (equivalent to a ...
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