New study suggests widely used plastics can be chemically converted to break down more quickly.  A team at the University of Edinburgh, working in partnership with RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in Germany, have discovered a method to convert widely used plastics into ‘polythionoesters’, which degrade more rapidly.  This, of course, could be used to upcycle existing plastics – from food packaging … Continue reading Edinburgh team’s solution to plastic waste