New plastic made from DNA is biodegradable and easy to recycle

By Alice Klein

A cupful made from DNA-based plastic

Dayong Yang astatine Tianjin University, China

A caller integrative made from DNA is renewable, requires small vigor to marque and is easy to recycle oregon interruption down.

Traditional plastics are atrocious for the environment due to the fact that they are made from non-renewable petrochemicals, necessitate aggravated heating and toxic chemicals to make, and instrumentality hundreds of years to interruption down. Only a tiny fraction of them are recycled, with the remainder ending up successful landfill, being incinerated oregon polluting the environment.

Alternative plastics derived from works sources similar corn starch and seaweed are …

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