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Scientists have created a plastic-eating super enzyme derived from a super bacteria found in a Japanese dump in 2016.
The super enzyme is capable of digesting a whole plastic bottle in a matter of hours, a process that used to take hundreds of years.
The enzyme is expected to revolutionize plastic recycling, which has not been cost effective until now.
British researchers engineered the super enzyme by joining two separate enzymes found in the plastic-eating bacteria. The combination of the two breaks down plastic six times faster than the single enzyme Japanese researchers extracted from the bug in 2018.
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Why am I not surprised?
Evolution in action. Keep dumping more and more plastic into
the environment . . . and it is only a matter of time before
lifeforms evolve to take advantage of the 'high energy'
plastics.
But I am pretty sure I would not want a 'super bacteria'
capable of dissolving plastics getting loose in the
environment.
Zim.
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