The jokes practically write themselves. Second, everything needs to be very clean — no cross-contamination with plastics other than PLA, no metal bits in the chopped-up plastic bits, and most ...

The global issue of plastic waste has prompted scientists to seek innovative solutions for recycling ... in laundry detergents that can break down PLA plastics within 24 hours, using a little ...

Though PLA is the most common commercial bioplastic ... acid as this plastic does not have any real way of properly recycling it," said chemistry professor Alex Brogan, one of the researchers ...