Single-use plastics or disposables are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled. Examples are things like straws, coffee stirrers, plastic bags, fizzy drink and water bottles and ...

When that happens they can’t recycle any of it. Next in the processing line is compressing the plastic. The bottles are sent into a compression machine and crushed into cubes for ease of transport.

More information: Yong‐Liang Su et al, Reprocessable and Recyclable Materials for 3D Printing via Reversible Thia‐Michael Reactions, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025). DOI: 10. ...