Hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York, the Rutgers chemist saw plastic bottles scattered along the path and ...

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Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...

Rutgers Chemist Yuwei Gu (at left) and graduate student Shaozheng Yin employ a gel permeation chromatography machine to measure the size of polymers and how they break down. Yuwei Gu was hiking ...