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Researchers in the US and UK have engineered an enzyme that could help solve the problem of PET bottle litter.
The breakthrough is the latest in a series of tantalising research results hinting that certain enzymes and microbes that use them might pave a way to degrade mountains of plastics scrap.
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Portsmouth say they have tweaked a bacterium's enzyme to improve its ability to degrade PET. The natural enzyme is in a bacterium called Ideonella sakaiensis, which researchers recently found was degrading PET in a Japanese waste recycling centre.
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The European Commission launched an alliance of key industry stakeholders as part of its persisting efforts to reduce plastics littering, increase the share of recycled plastics and stimulate market innovation.The Circular Plastics Alliance will be a high-level, multi-stakeholder platform gathering key industry stakeholders covering the full plasti...
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