Meet the researchers designing the death of plastic

Urbana, Illinois: Adam Feinberg had no sooner made a bright yellow thin sheet of plastic than he had to shred it into little pieces. He chose an "I"-shaped mould. Then, he filled it with the plastic bits and stuck it in a hot oven.

Plastic bags have been in the news in Australia, with a ban imposed by Coles and Woolies.

"I opened up the mould and there was this beautiful yellow 'I,'" he recalled. His new plastic passed the first test — it was moldable with heat like regular plastic. But there was another important step left in rethinking the world of durable plastics.

Read the story from The Age by Xiaozhi Lim - “Meet the researchers designing the death of plastic.”