Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

The linear production and consumption of plastics today is unsustainable. It creates large
amounts of unnecessary and mismanaged waste, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions …

Plastic waste poses an ecological challenge 1, 2, 3 and enzymatic degradation offers one,
potentially green and scalable, route for polyesters waste recycling 4. Poly (ethylene …

Mitigating life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of plastics is perceived as energy intensive
and costly. We developed a bottom-up model that represents the life cycle of 90% of global …

Chemical recycling is one of the most promising technologies that could contribute to
circular economy targets by providing solutions to plastic waste; however, it is still at an early …

We would like to retract the Report “Asymmetric remote C–H borylation of aliphatic amides
and esters with a modular iridium catalyst”(1) after discovering that the reported …

The ubiquitous use of plastics has been driven by their combination of low cost and
properties, but these attributes directly challenge waste management schemes for plastic …

Coral reefs are losing the capacity to sustain their biological functions. In addition to other
well-known stressors, such as climatic change and overfishing, plastic pollution is an …

Although the mass production of synthetic plastics has transformed human lives, it has
resulted in waste accumulation on the earth. Here, we report a low-temperature conversion …

In comparison to the traditional petroleum-based plastics, polylactic acid, the most popular
biodegradable plastic, can be decomposed into carbon dioxide and water in the …