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Scientists Created a ‘Super Enzyme’ That Eats Plastic Bottles – TheInertia.com
Still, even with the new findings, researchers are intent on upping the ante, as their current innovation isn’t commercially viable.
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By now you’ve heard that plastic pollution is one of the world’s most pressing environmental concerns. By any measurement, things like single-use plastic bottles are on track to flood landfills and eventually spill into our oceans at scary rates. The Pew Charitable Trust, for example, projects that we’ll be dumping about 29 million metric tons into the ocean per year by 2040, decimating ecosystems and impacting every way we rely on or interact with the ocean.
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