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Engineers develop an enzyme that can break down plastic in hours not centuries

Engineers develop an enzyme that can break down plastic in hours not centuries

A huge scientific breakthrough While plastic usually takes hundreds of years to decompose, Scientists have developed an enzyme that could shorten that time to mere hours. Engineers at the University of Texas in Austin have been working on solutions to the polyethylene terephthalate problem, which currently accounts for 12 per cent of the Earth’s global […]

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