Here is a thin film that shimmers like a candy wrapper. It will rustle gently in my hand, somewhere sturdy, but eventually vanish into the soil. This is a piece of biodegradable plastic made from sugar rings.Yes, sugar. My teammate and I made it in a lab. We call it a sweet solution to plastic pollution.Sweet. literally and metaphorically. But how does this seemly delicate plastic correlate to something as massive and urgent as plastic pollution.We have long been told that plastic pollution is a global conc ...