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Scientists *accidentally* develop an enzyme that could lead to a solution to the global plastic crisis.
#1. Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of ...
Plastic -eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste ... AUSTIN, Texas — An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists ...
#2. This AI-Designed Enzyme Can Devour Plastic Trash In Hours
Scientists have developed a new enzyme variant that can completely break down waste plastic in under 24 hours, raising hopes that biological ...
#3. Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic ...
Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles – by accident. The breakthrough could help solve the global ...
#4. Engineering a plastic-eating enzyme - University of Portsmouth
Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to plastic pollution.
#5. Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Supercharge Recycling and ...
Timelapse of plastic degradation. A new enzyme variant can break down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of ...
#6. AI-Engineered Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Be the Solution ...
During the project, Alper and the team at UT Austin found that the novel plastic-eating enzyme, referred to as FAST-PETase (functional, active, ...
#7. Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Reduce Mountains of Waste
A genetically engineered, plastic-eating enzyme may soon improve plastic recycling on an industrial scale, as the journal Nature reports.
#8. A plastic-eating enzyme could help clean up ... - USA Today
Here's a solution that could help with the plastic pollution problem: an enzyme that can chemically break down many bottles and packaging, ...
#9. Can plastic-eating enzymes solve the recycling problem?
Carbios, a French biotechnology start-up, is among the innovators looking to commercialise depolymerization — or enzymatic — recycling. This ...
#10. researchers create plastic-eating enzyme that could break it ...
researchers at the university of texas in austin have created an enzyme variant that can break down plastics that usually take centuries to ...
#11. Plastic-eating Enzyme from Worm May Help Ease Pollution
Researchers have found that a chemical from a kind of worm can break down one of the most common forms of plastic. The finding could open up new ...
#12. A New Enzyme Found in Compost Just Set a Speed Record ...
A plastic container thrown into landfill can take hundreds of years to break down naturally, but a newly discovered enzyme could eat up the ...
#13. This plastic-eating enzyme can break down garbage in days
The researchers started with an enzyme called PETase, which naturally evolved to make bacteria degrade PET plastic. Then they used machine ...
#14. Can plastic-eating enzymes solve the recycling problem?
Research suggests there will be enzymes capable of digesting polyethylene (plastic bags) and polypropylene (hard plastics). Like Carbios, ...
#15. New Plastic-Eating Enzyme Sets Record For Speediest ...
scientists have found a new enzyme that eats plastic in less than a day, setting a record · The enzyme in question is called polyester hydrolase ...
#16. AI-engineered enzyme eats entire plastic containers | Research
A plastic-degrading enzyme enhanced by amino acid changes designed by a machine-learning algorithm can depolymerise polyethylene terephthalate (PET) at ...
#17. UT researchers create plastic-eating enzyme that could clean ...
UT researchers create plastic-eating enzyme that could clean landfills, polluted areas ... AUSTIN, Texas - Engineers and scientists at The ...
#18. Why haven't plastic-eating bacteria fixed the plastic problem yet?
A new enzyme that eats plastic has been discovered, again. Here's the catch. ... Scientists from the University of Texas announced they've created ...
#19. Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of ...
Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences used a machine learning model to generate novel mutations to a ...
#20. Engineers Create Super Fast Plastic Eating Enzyme
PETase, a plastic-eating enzyme, was first discovered at a Japanese waste facility in 2016. Since then, researchers around the globe have ...
#21. Watch a plastic-eating enzyme quickly devour trash and save ...
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin developed this special enzyme to destroy PET (polyethylene terephthalate) — a common substance ...
#22. This Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could 'Supercharge' Recycling
Treehugger previously covered bacteria like the Ideonella sakaiensis, which could digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—the stuff of water and ...
#23. Plastics recycling with microbes and worms is further away ...
Headlines about plastic-eating organisms belie tough, ... Media circus notwithstanding, biodepolymerization research is slowly moving ...
#24. Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Be The Future Of Waste Disposal
The study published in Nature focused on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) – as PET makes up 12 percent of all global waste and is a polymer ...
#25. Global Plastic-Eating Enzyme Market 2022-2027
PETase, a type of enzyme discovered in the study, has the ability to attack the hard, crystalline surface of plastic bottles. By chance, they discovered that ...
#26. Plastic Eating Enzyme Could Help Reduce World Pollution
Plastic enzyme Researchers created an enzyme variant that can break down plastic fast. Credit: Public Domain. An enzyme variant created by ...
#27. Can bacteria eat plastic? Hunt is on for mutants to devour ...
The bacterium had evolved to use an enzyme that ordinarily broke down the bonds of polymers — long strings of repeating molecules — found in ...
#28. Hungry for plastic waste - University of Strathclyde
The scientists are working on an enzyme called PETase, which can break down the PET (polyethylene terephthalate) found in single use plastic drinks bottles and ...
#29. 'A huge step forward.' Mutant enzyme could vastly improve ...
Now, researchers report they've engineered an enzyme that can convert 90% of that same plastic back to its pristine starting materials.
#30. Plastic may be biodegradable after all – DW – 06/01/2022
Leipzig researchers have found an enzyme that rapidly breaks down PET, the most widely produced plastic in the world. It might just eat your ...
#31. Can plastic eating super-enzymes solve our destructive plastic ...
In 2012, researchers at Osaka University discovered an enzyme in a compost heap that can break down one of the world's most used plastics: ...
#32. Recent Biotechnological Techniques for Recycling of Plastic
14 Plastic-Eating Microorganisms: Recent Biotechnological. Techniques for Recycling of Plastic . ... her outstanding research on methanotrophic bacteria.
#33. New funding for plastic-eating enzyme research | Mirage News
The University of Portsmouth has been awarded funding to look for new plastic-eating enzymes. Angie Beckett, a Specialist Research ...
#34. Scientists Discover New Plastic-Eating Enzyme
The enzyme PHL7, which the researchers found in a compost heap in Leipzig, could make biological PET recycling possible much faster than ...
#35. Scientists create 'super enzyme' that eats plastic bottles ... - CNN
A team of researchers that previously re-engineered a plastic-eating enzyme named PETase have now combined it with a second enzyme to speed ...
#36. Researchers Use AI to Design Plastic-Eating Enzyme
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin may have discovered a new way to deal with plastic waste — an enzyme that breaks down ...
#37. Innovations to solve the planet's plastic problem - UKRI
From bacteria that eat disposable bottles, to edible plastics made ... The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) were among the first ...
#38. Texas researchers create plastic-eating enzyme that could ...
Researchers in Texas have created an enzyme variant that can break down plastics that would typically take hundreds of years to dissolve in ...
#39. This new discovery by UT researchers could be a game ...
The “plastic-eating enzyme” can break down a certain type of plastic to the molecular level, which can then be used to recreate new plastics ...
#40. Plastic-eating bacteria: Engineering and impact | Live Science
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth (opens in new tab) have re-engineered PETase to create an enzyme "cocktail" that they say can digest ...
#41. This Mutant Super-Enzyme Can Eat Plastic Waste Within Days
PLASTIC - EATING ENZYME: Researchers have re-engineered a plastic-eating enzyme to degrade bottles within days — and it might be ready to start eating our...
#42. Plastic-eating bacteria could help scientists fight pollution ...
This means enriching the water with particular species of bacteria could help banish plastic pollution ; According to the study, the rate of ...
#43. New Super-Enzyme Can Break Down Plastic at Rapid Pace
The super-enzyme was engineered by linking two separate enzymes, both of which were found in the plastic-eating bug discovered at a Japanese ...
#44. Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Synthetic Plastics
Few comparison studies have been made on the biodegradability of various pre-treated polyethylene materials, including, LDPE, HDPE, and linear ...
#45. Meet the plastic-eating enzymes that can fully break down ...
Researchers hope the enzymes could create a truly circular system for the PET plastics that are still manufactured.
#46. Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Recover Plastics for Reuse
The researchers have filed a patent application for the technology and are eying several different uses. Cleaning up landfills and greening high ...
#47. AI Engineering Leads to Breakthrough with Plastic Eating ...
For several years, researchers have been experimenting with plastic-degrading enzymes, which can essentially 'eat' away the plastic.
#48. Can PET-eating enzymes help to solve the plastic waste ...
Scientists from Leipzig University recently discovered an enzyme that they say can degrade PET in record time, via a process known as ...
#49. Scientists Discover Enzymes That Could Make It Cheaper To ...
Using Machine Learning, NREL-Led Team Discovered Variants of 'Plastic-Eating' Enzymes ... Two researchers pipette samples in a laboratory.
#50. Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of ... - Assomac
Plastic -eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste ... Research on enzymes for plastic recycling has advanced during the past 15 years ...
#51. Diamond reveals how a key enzyme helps break down plastic ...
Tackling the challenge of plastic pollution and converting waste plastic into ... Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat ...
#52. Pollution breakthrough as new enzyme helps 'eat' plastic used ...
Scientists hope that 'plastic-eating' enzymes can help tackle the ... and builds on research from 2018 which engineered a natural enzyme ...
#53. World's Next Environmental Superhero is a Plastic-Eating ...
Last month, however, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin revealed a natural enzyme variant that breaks down plastics, which ...
#54. Chem-recycling – Plastic-eating-enzyme 28-06-2022 - Arhive
While companies and research groups struggle to develop new technologies to reduce carbon emissions, some scientists are looking beyond a net- ...
#55. Plastic-Eating Super Enzyme Could Help Solve ... - EcoWatch
Scientists are on the brink of scaling up an enzyme that devours plastic. The super-enzyme degraded plastic bottles in several days, ...
#56. Scientists Accidentally Create A Plastic-Eating Enzyme
“Serendipity often plays a significant role in fundamental scientific research and our discovery here is no exception,” said John McGeehan, a ...
#57. Plastic-eating Bacteria - microbewiki - Kenyon College
For the purposes of this page, plastic-eating bacteria are defined ... The researchers who engineered this new enzyme concluded that it is ...
#58. Engineering a Plastic-Eating Enzyme - SelectScience
Researchers aim to tackle the issue of plastic waste by enhancing pre-existing PETase – a known digestive enzyme for plastic materials.
#59. Plastic-Eating Enzyme Breakthrough Enabled by ... - HPCwire
The researchers say that the improved enzyme, called FAST-PETase, can break down PET in hours or days at less than 50°C (the need for high ...
#60. Chinese scientists discover plastic-eating bacteria
A team of researchers in China claims to have found marine bacteria capable of breaking down polythene, which is found in many plastic ...
#61. Scottish Scientists Just Worked Out How to Convert Plastic ...
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh used a genetically ... using some of those mutant plastic eating enzymes we mentioned earlier.
#62. How a plastic-eating enzyme could help reduce our recycling ...
The new research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the enzyme takes a few days to start ...
#63. Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme that Eats Plastic
Yes, that's right, they did it by accident. The origins of the new study are tied to the 2016 discovery of a bacterium in a Japanese waste dump ...
#64. Thousands of Bacterial Enzymes Hold the Key to Plastic ...
Around 18,100 plastic-eating enzymes were found in soil. Many of these were found to attack phthalates, found in water bottles made from ...
#65. How a Plastic-Eating Enzyme is Helping Fight Plastic Pollution
PETase allows the bacteria to eat plastic bottles and other similar plastics. As the enzyme breaks down plastic, the bacteria produce MHETase. The MHETase ...
#66. Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for ...
This study on the characterization of the MHETase enzyme and synergy ... may inform enzyme cocktail-based strategies for plastics upcycling.
#67. Pioneering plastic-eating enzyme centre opens to industry
The IEH brings together researchers and businesses to develop enzyme-enabled technologies for the recycling and upcycling of plastic waste ...
#68. Plastic-eating enzyme holds promise in fighting pollution - ABC
The enzyme is able to digest polyethylene terephthalate, or PET — a form of plastic patented in the 1940s and now used in millions of tonnes of ...
#69. Plastic-Eating Enzyme - The Waste Management Solution?
Researchers made the surprising discovery at a bottle recycling site in Japan. That was in 2016, and since then, researchers have managed to ...
#70. Mutant enzyme that 'eats' plastic bottles could be a game ...
The bacterial enzyme can break down plastic into its founding chemicals, the researchers said. The team wanted to understand how it worked and ...
#71. Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Waste
Scientists and engineers at the University of Texas recently discovered a useful enzyme that can break down plastics.
#72. New plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate tons of landfill waste
The enzyme variant created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin can break down plastics that typically take centuries to ...
#73. Can Microbes Be Active Participants in Research ...
Plastic -Eating Microbes and Human-Microbe Relations in the Context of Bioremediation. In 2016 researchers from Japan identified a bacterial ...
#74. Scientists Develop Super-Enzyme That Eats Plastic Six Times ...
PETase was created first accidentally by the scientists which digest the hard, crystalline surfaces of the plastic bottles. It has now been ...
#75. Are Plastic-eating Enzymes Our Planet's Only Hope?
In 2016, a Japanese research team discovered a bacteria (Ideonella sakaiensis) making some inroads into plastics recycling where humans were failing.
#76. AI helps scientists design novel plastic-eating enzyme
In brief A synthetic enzyme designed using machine-learning software can break down waste plastics in 24 hours, according to research ...
#77. Researchers Accidentally Find Enzyme to Break Down Plastic
We can sometimes recycle plastic and use it again, but the recycling process is expensive and limited. One group of researchers may have ...
#78. Can this plastic-eating enzyme devour our PET pollution ...
With a little luck, researchers have happened upon an engineered enzyme with an appetite for some of the most commonly disposed of types of ...
#79. A novel plastic-eating enzyme may solve our plastic woes ...
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an enzyme variant that gobbles up environment-throttling plastics.
#80. Super-recycling: AI creates an enzyme that eats plastics at ...
FAST-PETase could be a game-changer for the environment. Researchers have developed a machine learning model to create a new variant of an enzyme that can ...
#81. The Week in AI: A Plastic-Eating Enzyme, Low-Carbon ...
ML-Based Enzyme Helps Reduce Plastic Landfill Waste ... A team of researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering and College of Natural Science ...
#82. Scientists Engineer New Plastic-Eating Enzyme - Sci.News
In new research, a team of scientists at the University of Texas at Austin used a structure-based, machine learning algorithm to engineer a ...
#83. Plastic-Eating Enzymes Chomp into the Future - Tech Briefs
Create the Future Design Contest: Success Story - Plastic-Eating ... of Intropic Materials and one of the former UC Berkeley researchers.
#84. Plastic Eating enzymes Are going to feast!
These bacteria survive by eating plastic bottles. ... Pottsmouth University researcher and lead author of the study Professor John McGeehan ...
#85. Plastic-degrading enzymes correlate with pollution | Chalmers
The researchers used computer modelling to search for microbial enzymes with plastic-degrading potential, which was then cross-referenced ...
#86. Unlocking the secrets of a plastic-eater | MIT News
“I started developing methods to study this enzyme in more detail,” says Zhong. Previous assays that looked at PETase would measure the ...
#87. Scientists accidentally engineer plastic-eating enzyme
British scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the plastic used in single-use plastic ...
#88. This enzyme eats plastic waste | World Economic Forum
The enzyme is able to digest polyethylene terephthalate, or PET - a form of plastic patented in the 1940s and now used in millions of tonnes ...
#89. Plastic-eating enzyme to help solve environmental problems
The research was led by teams at the University of Portsmouth and the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is published in ...
#90. Researchers Engineer an Enzyme that Eats Plastic Waste
The enzyme—dubbed FAST-PETase—targets polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a polymer found in consumer packaging that makes up 12% of global waste.
#91. UT Scientists Create Plastic-Eating Enzyme
The enzyme variant can break down plastics that typically take ... Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering and College of Natural ...
#92. Scientists create plastic-eating enzyme - The Asian Age
The production of this enzyme allowed a research team to produce something capable of digesting plastic more effectively.
#93. Scientists-engineer-plastics-eating-enzyme
Researchers in the U.S. and England have engineered an enzyme that could help solve the problem of PET bottle litter.
#94. Are plastic eating bacteria the solution to ocean pollution ...
This particular enhanced enzyme was not developed to “eat” plastic. In fact, the main goal of the researchers was to identify and empower this ...
#95. Scientists Accidentally Engineer Plastic-Eating Enzyme | News
Researchers of the University of Portsmouth and the United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have accidentally engineered a ...
#96. University of Portsmouth receives new funding for plastic ...
The University of Portsmouth has been given £25000 from Covid-19 Genomics UK to help with the funding of its plastic-eating enzyme research ...
#97. Engineering a plastic-eating enzyme
The research was led by teams at the University of Portsmouth and the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and ...
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