Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste – UT News

Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste – UT News

AUSTIN, Texas — An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at the University of Texas at Austin can break down environmentally strangling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in hours to days. This discovery, published today in Nature, could help solve one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems: what to do with…