IBM Researchers Develop Highly Recyclable, Biodegradable Plastic

A mind-boggling 13 billion plastic
bottles are tossed in the trash or recycled each year. And while most plastics are recyclable, the resulting materials are limited to "second generation reuse" only--so anything made out of recycled plastics has to be thrown on the landfill pile at the end of it's life. But now researchers from IBM and Stanford say they have solved the problem by developing plastics that can be continuously recycled.

The discovery, published in the American Chemical...