A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics.

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More than 16,000 chemicals are used to produce plastics — and some are silently killing us. Particularly worrisome is di-2-ethylhexylphthalate, or DEHP, a chemical used to soften plastic products.

The specific chemical additive focused on in this study was di-2-ethylhexylphthalate (DEHP), a chemical additive used in manufacturing various plastic items. Phthalates have been previously linked to ...

In 2018, 356,238 people around the world died of cardiovascular disease attributed to phthalates, specifically di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate, or DEHP, which is often used to make plastic more flexible ...

Plastic has long been part of everyday life, from food containers to medical tools. But in recent years, scientists have uncovered a disturbing truth: chemicals used to make plastic soft and ...