New Enzyme Could Aid in Plastic Pollution Cleanup
Researchers from Britain’s University of Portsmouth and the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory accidentally invented an enzyme that decomposes plastic. They noticed that this enzyme, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, has naturally evolved to eat polyethylene terephthalate, a compound more commonly known as PET. PET is a plastic that is commonly used for packaging […]
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