Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste – UT News

Mmm, plastic-eating bacteria. THAT won’t cause any trouble.

“Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences used a machine learning model to generate novel mutations to a natural enzyme called PETase that allows bacteria to degrade PET plastics. The model predicts which mutations in these enzymes would accomplish the goal of quickly depolymerizing post-consumer waste plastic at low temperatures.”

https://news.utexas.edu/2022/04/27/plastic-eating-enzyme-could-eliminate-billions-of-tons-of-landfill-waste/#:~:text=Researchers%20at%20the,at%20low%20temperatures.

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