Unlike standard mechanical recycling, which “downcycles” plastic into a lower-quality material, the enzymatic process makes it possible to recycle a bottle into a material that’s equal in quality to ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

When picking up a bottle of pop at the store, most people end up grabbing a bottle that one local man helped invent. Tom Brady, originally from Maumee, was part of the team that invented the ...