INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
plastic into its original, natural components, discovered by sheer accident.Two years ago, Japanese scientists discovered a plastic-eating
bacterium that could break down Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics in about six weeks by secreting an enzyme
PET is typically found in plastic bottles and takes 400 years to degrade naturally.To see how the PET-killing enzyme worked, a different
group of scientists tweaked its molecular structure to see how much it would slow down the degradation speed
Against their wildest expectations, the manipulated enzyme broke down PET plastics faster than the original.John McGeehan, a professor at
Mass-produced, fully-optimized enzymes, which are non-toxic and biodegradable, could have a significant impact on our huge plastic piles in
plastics are dumping these bottles into the sea, where they form ocean habitat-destroying piles
find this promising, but one University of Manchester Professor, Adisa Azapagic, warned the Guardian that rapidly dissolving these plastics
