American chemists have created plastic that can be processed endlessly.

Scientists from the University of Colorado state that they were able to synthesize a polymer material that is divided into individual monomers.

As the project manager, Professor Eugene Chen, said, the new material is based on gamma-butyrolactone, only the combination of two carbon atoms in the form of a cyclic structure is used, the so-called transconformation.

To synthesize this material, reagents available in free sale were used, which significantly reduces its final cost. At the same time, the new material does not differ in its properties from plastics, which is important for the production of many things used by man.

Polymeric materials, subject to reusable processing, scientists note, were created before. But their properties differed from the basic characteristics of plastic, so such polymers were not in great demand.

The developed material, the author of the project notes, can be processed thousands of times. This is very important for improving the ecological situation on the planet, because at the moment plastic contamination is one of the most acute problems.