A major breakthrough in plastic technology promises to tackle one of the planet’s biggest environmental challenges:plastic waste. Researchers have developed a new kind of plastic that can be ...

The film looks like ordinary polycaprolactone, the same polymer used in 3D-printing filaments and some dissolvable surgical sutures. Flexible, translucent, unremarkable. But sealed inside it, dormant ...

Many plastic products are designed to be used only once, yet the material itself lasts for years. But a new strategy is addressing this problem by creating products that self-destruct on command, ...

A new kind of "living plastic" developed by scientists in China could help address how some materials last far longer than the products they make up. Instead of lingering for years, this plastic can ...

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Many plastic products are designed to be used only once, yet the material itself lasts for years. But a new strategy is addressing this problem by creating products that self-destruct on command, ...