Bacteria recruited to build endlessly recyclable plastic

Raw TAL produced by bacteria (left) can be mixed with other chemicals to create the endlessly recyclable plastic PDK (right)

Plastic is one of the most useful materials in our modern world, but unfortunately it’s also one of the worst in a sustainability sense. Now, scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed a way to engineer bacteria to produce raw materials that can be made into plastics that are completely recyclable.

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