Researchers have created a new type of ‘living plastic’ capable of destroying itself when triggered, offering a potential solution to one of the world’s biggest waste problems: single-use plastics that linger in the environment for decades.
Plastic recovered from the coastlines is driving food-safe recycled polypropylene
It’s in cups, trays, caps, films, closures — and our seas. Less than 1% of a ubiquitous packaging type is currently recycled, but can marine cleanups catalyse change?