A novel plastic-eating enzyme may solve our plastic woes once and for all
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an enzyme variant that gobbles up environment-throttling plastics. This may just resolve our plastic woes once and for all.
Plastic pollution is everywhere. It’s showing up as microplastics that contaminate nearly everything and even in the stomachs of dead whales. This is because a lot of plastic is simply not biodegradable and has a very long lifespan. Researchers around the world have been coming up with ingenious solutions such as reusing plastic into building blocks and even turning it into useful oils. But still, the problem persists on a large scale. An enzyme variant that gobbles up hard-to-degrade plastics Now, engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have come up with an…
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