{the holy grail of Plastic Recycling – Earth and Leaf editorial} {extract below} The holy grail of Plastic Recycling Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient. They constitute a core material of modern medicine by helping to keep equipment sterile, deliver medicines and build prosthetics, among many other things. And they are a critical component of the wiring and hardware that underlies our technology-driven civilization. The trouble is, when they outlive their usefulness, they become waste and end up polluting our oceans, rivers, soils and bodies. But new research from…