The trillion dollar question: Have scientists found the holy grail of plastic?
Analysis: Scientists from Berkeley Lab claim to have made a plastic that can be recycled endlessly
To recycle or not to recycle? That is the difficult question many of us face several times a day when deciding which bin to put our empty packaging in.
Even when we do recycle, our waste still often ends up in the wrong place.
The most recyclable plastic, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), is recycled as little as 20 per cent of the time.
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