A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

This illustration shows how a newly developed floatable nanocomposite system produces hydrogen gas by using sunlight to break down everyday plastic waste. The sponge-like material floats on water and ...

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Most compostable plastics labelled as suitable for home composting don’t break down properly in garden bins, leaving scraps of residual plastic polluting garden soils and even entering the food chain.