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AI-engineered enzyme eats entire plastic containers
submitted 1 year ago by Drewski from chemistryworld.com
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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
I imagine in 100 years we will be basically swimming in a sea of human-engineered enzymes.
Cool to see some development on this front though, there's a whole texas-sized garbage patch in the pacific that is mostly plastic. If humans could develop techniques to easily break down the plastic that'd be great.
I think I remember reading wax worms can eat certain types of thin plastic, like grocery bags. And they excrete antifreeze (glycol) as waste.
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