{"id":90461,"date":"2019-05-08T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-recyclable-plastic-can-break-its-molecular-bonds-and-start-over"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:22:36","slug":"new-recyclable-plastic-can-break-its-molecular-bonds-and-start-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-recyclable-plastic-can-break-its-molecular-bonds-and-start-over","title":{"rendered":"New recyclable plastic can break its molecular bonds and start over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-recyclable-plastic-can-break-its-molecular-bonds-and-start-over2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plastics are useful and ubiquitous \u2013 but that\u2019s not always a good combination. The vast majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/eu-plastic-waste-strategy\/53023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plastic waste<\/a> can\u2019t be recycled, meaning it ends up in landfills at best or the <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/plastic-ocean-cleanup\/50277\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ocean<\/a> at worst. To help curb the problem, researchers at Berkeley Lab have now designed a new type of plastic that can apparently be reduced right back to its molecular parts, before being remade over and over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/berkeley-lab-recyclable-plastic\/59565\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastics are useful and ubiquitous \u2013 but that\u2019s not always a good combination. The vast majority of plastic waste can\u2019t be recycled, meaning it ends up in landfills at best or the ocean at worst. To help curb the problem, researchers at Berkeley Lab have now designed a new type of plastic that can apparently [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}