"Through the utilization of unexploited cellulose wastes such as worn fabrics, waste papers, and low-value wood, tPB can play ...

The millimeter-thick paperboard behaves just like plastic; it's strong, transparent, shapeable—and can hold boiling water. But it degrades within a year on the ocean floor.

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Police say a SEPTA engineer's own wife shot and killed him, then left his body on a plastic sheet outside their home. Danielle Baxter, 39, is accused of killing 38-year-old Jordan Baxter in the ...

It worked on plastic bottles, T-shirts and colored plastics, breaking them down into pure, colorless TPA. "It worked perfectly," Kratish said. "When we added extra water, it stopped working ...