Source: Xinhua

Chinese and US scientists announced on June 17 that they had made breakthroughs in degrading polyethylene, such as waste plastics.

Their method not only provides a possible way to solve the “white pollution”, or plastic pollution, but also generates materials in the degradation process, which can be used to produce clean diesel fuel and recycle carbon resources.

This research was a cooperation between Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the University of California, Irvine. The related report has been published on the latest issue of the US magazine Science Advances.