More than 300 million tons of plastic are produced annually worldwide. Most take hundreds of years to break down, and even then, they just splinter into tiny microplastic pieces that will likely never ...

AMES, Iowa – Yan Zhao gestured toward the trees outside his campus window on a rainy afternoon. The professor of chemistry at Iowa State University is developing new synthetic catalysts to break down ...

Back in 2018, scientists in Japan made the key discovery of a bacterium with a natural appetite for PET plastics. This raised the prospect of a low-cost solution to some of the most common forms of ...

New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has revealed that a super-enzyme engineered in the lab can degrade plastic six times faster than a previous plastic-eating ...

Scientists at the University of Portsmouth merged two enzymes to create a more effective protein to decompose plastic waste. This could help reduce and recycle the amount of plastic on Earth. A team ...

A two-enzyme cocktail can break down the most common plastic six times faster than before. Scientists in many disciplines study ways to close the loop on plastic waste by recycling and reuse. These ...

A plastic-eating 'super-enzyme' could solve the never-ending global plastic pollution. That is what researchers in Colorado have found in their recent experiment. If this works, all plastic materials ...

A new cocktail of enzymes that speeds up the degradation of plastic offers a step forward in finding a new form of recycling that is faster, more affordable and works on a larger scale than current ...

A trans-Atlantic team of scientists have made a discovery that will allow plastics to be made and reused endlessly - a huge leap toward tackling plastic waste, a growing worldwide environmental ...

(CNN) — Scientists have created a new “super enzyme” that can break down plastic up to six times faster than their previous enzyme. A team of researchers that previously re-engineered a plastic-eating ...

Scientists have created a new "super enzyme" that can break down plastic up to six times faster than their previous enzyme. Scientists have created a new "super enzyme" that can break down plastic up ...

Scientists have created a new “super enzyme” that can break down plastic up to six times faster than their previous enzyme. A team of researchers that previously re-engineered a plastic-eating enzyme ...