According to foreign media reports, researchers have designed a new material system, To address one of the biggest challenges in the consumer product recycling process: mixed plastic recycling. This will help make fully recyclable plastic products and enable an efficient circular economy for durable goods such as cars.

(photo credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Most products are now made from a mixture of different plastics, such as sports shoes and electronics. These mixtures of plastics are difficult to recycle and use to make new products.

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a custom material called polydiketoenamine (PDK) to solve the mixed plastic recycling problem. The new plastic, which can be efficiently and infinitely recycled, offers a low-carbon solution for manufacturing plastic products.