Unlocking Plastic Recycling Since their widespread adoption by the manufacturing industry in the 1960s, plastics have become an omnipresent material in our daily lives. They are also the cause of very ...

Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only nine per cent ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to upcycle discarded plastics into new materials with enhanced properties. This innovation not only offers a potential solution to the global plastic ...

ORNL researchers developed a method to upcycle discarded plastics into high-value macromolecules, enhancing properties for ...

Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can connect through their backbones and cross-linked molecules to form ...

By editing the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists have found a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material. Upcycling may help remedy the ...

Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can connect through their backbones and cross-linked molecules to form multipurpose plastics ... In 2005, the prize went to developers of the ...

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The iconic one-liner, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” — the answer being, “To get to the other side” — is more than just an anti-joke, turns out. It’s been cooped up for far ...