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 ...

Their experiments focused on soft polybutadiene, commonly found in rubber tires, and tough acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, used in products such as plastic toys, computer keyboards, ventilation pipes ...

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

In some experiments, the researchers worked with soft polybutadiene, which is common in rubber tires. In other experiments, they worked with tough acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, the stuff of plastic ...