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An employee walks through plastic waste waiting to be recycled on August 21, 2018, at a sorting center in Ploufragan, western France. (Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images) At a Glance Researchers at Berkeley Lab say their new plastic easily breaks down in strong acid.A simple procedure can then separate the plastic from additives and other materials.The recycled plastic is almost identical to the original material. Plastic can be tough to recycle. Of the 9.1 billion tons of plastic that have been produced...