New enzyme discovery is another leap towards beating plastic waste

ScienceDaily
Mar 21, 2022, 7:04 pm384 pts
Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global plastics crisis. They have characterized an enzyme that has the remarkable capacity to help break down terephthalate (TPA), one of the chemical building blocks…

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