It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, ...

Black colored plastic accounts for ~15% of all plastics ... to upcycle the material and then derivatize it into a couple of common consumer products. Part of the challenge of recycling PVC ...

This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...

Black colored plastic accounts for ~15% of all plastics ... mixture—“We basically spatula it in,” said Stache—and were able to upcycle the material and then derivatize it into a couple of common ...

Hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of cases of heart disease worldwide may be linked to chemicals in common plastic products, suggesting that more stringent regulations on such toxins ...

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Researchers from the University of Waterloo added DNA to several species of bacteria found in wastewater, allowing them to biodegrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common plastic found in ...