AI-engineered enzyme eats entire plastic containers

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You know what's amazing about all this? We've had plastics on this planet for what, 50, 60 years? And here we have bacteria that NATURALLY EVOLVED to eat the stuff. In half a century.

But eVeRy MuTaTiOn TaKeS mIlLiOnS oF yEaRs... sigh.