INVESTABLE OCEANS
INVESTABLE OCEANS
Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
Sector: Plastics & Pollution

An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.

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by The University of Texas at Austin

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