Up until now, manufacturing plastic to meet a certain use or using a certain plastic for a particular component has been a trial and error process, due to a lack of understanding of how plastics were composed at the chemical level. That code has now been cracked by a team of researchers at the University of Leeds and Durham University.

This will allow uses for sustainably sourced plastics to be fast-tracked as their efficacy can now be proved using modelling rather than costly trial and error. It also opens the doors for breakthroughs in plastics recycling. While it reads as boring now, this will actually end up being very big news for the environment once the results starts to trickle down into the commercial sphere.

See the news release from Leeds for more information.

Tags: plastic manufacturing, plastic recycling, plastics recycling

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