Now, new research, published Friday in Science Advances, reexamines the U.S.’s role as a plastic consumer and concludes that the country has much more work to do at home to manage its waste.

MEGO has a “wormlike” layered structure which can be sheared apart during melt mixing with a polymer host. In this study, we produced MEGO/polycarbonate (PC) composites at various loadings and ...