Research team develops plastic that breaks down in seawater

An international team of researchers has developed a type of plastic that can break down in seawater in a bid to decrease environmental pollution and the accumulation of plastics in oceans, it said in Friday's edition of the U.S. academic journal Science.The material called "supramolecular" plastic has similar tensile strength and can also be processed like petroleum-based plastics, according to the research team including members from the national science research institute Riken and the University of Tokyo.The new plastic is made of monomers used in food additives and those created in org…READ FULL ARTICLE