Usually, it takes hundreds of years for plastic to break down naturally, but scientists from Germany have now discovered a highly efficient enzyme that degrades PET in record time. The discovery ...

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 (PHL7) and was recently found at a German cemetery ...

Dr Christian Sonnendecker and his team discovered an enzyme that breaks down PET plastic at record speed. From a fruit punnet made of PET, only the dye and fragments of cutting edges remained ...

A new type of plastic made directly from organic plant waste has been created by scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Human saliva may contain an enzyme which can decompose the plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Researchers found the ...

Plastic is cheap and highly durable, which has made it an extremely popular packaging product. But it’s also leading to an ...

From your phone battery to the Empire State Building, every single thing we as a species have created was made from things we found in nature. This includes, of course, plastics. Stock image ...

While other research has suggested that superworms, as well as smaller worms, can eat and digest plastic, Rinke and his team’s paper, published in Microbial Genomics, identifies for the first time ...

While the importance of recycling is regularly hammered home to us, plastic waste around the world is at an all-time high ... thanks to a bacterial enzyme in their gut. To test how effective ...

They believe the beetle larvae digest the plastic through a gut enzyme. That could be significant for advancements in recycling, says one of the study's authors. "Superworms are like mini recycling ...

Next, the team used a technique called metagenomics to analyze the microbial gut community and find which gene-encoded enzymes were involved in degrading the plastic. One way to put the findings ...