How to Recycle a Packing Tape

Tape is real sticky without having to dry. It's always polamers combined with some mix of rubber, acilix, resins et cetera,. Chemicals that make tape sticky are not recyclable. Scientists in Japan have developed an adhesive based on the feet of a house fly. The technology could be used to make things like tape that could be made adhesive with something like water, or like some kind of oil - and it would be stronger than the sort of tape we use now. And by twisting the strands ina way, they'd detach and be completely reusible.

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