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

Phoebe Weston
Thursday 09 May 2019 19:40 BST
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Marine plastic costs the world up to $2.5 trillion a year in damaged and lost resources, according to research last month
Marine plastic costs the world up to $2.5 trillion a year in damaged and lost resources, according to research last month

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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