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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Some three billion years ago, when life on this planet was still in its infancy, hot springs, geysers and volcanic hydrothermal vents were burgeoning with single-cell organisms. Temperatures hovered ...

A new cocktail of enzymes that degrades plastic faster is a step to fully recycling soda bottles and other waste, British and American researchers said this week. By Isabella Kwai A new cocktail of ...

(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 ...