Just In Time For Earth Day — A Plastic-Eating Enzyme!
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The Earth Day Network may have an unexpected ally in its quest to solve the global plastic pollution crisis: bacteria. More specifically, an enzyme produced by the Ideonella sakaiensis microbes. Dubbed PETase, it can expertly break down PET (polyethylene terephthalate), one of the most common types of plastic, within days, instead of the over 450 years it takes the synthetic material to decompose naturally.
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- Gretta II약 6년these people need to stop. they are polluting our future, there are ruining the world for us. we need to fight back and tell them on. throw your plastic, paper, and glass in the trash. help save the world.
- abbygailalvarez약 6년stop macking plastic!!!!!!
- JJ약 6년STOP POLLUTING BOIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- little g 약 6년No MORE POLLUTING
- DudePerfect6년 이상What a perfect thing for eating plastic.
- Deep blue6년 이상Just a while ago in total ONE MILLION animals went extinct. This has gone too far. :(
- chlooe6년 이상That is a lot of plastic... Everybody should always remember to recycle. If you're trying to craft something so you could reuse but it doesn't work out as planned, you could always recycle too! There are many options to choose from if one way doesn't work (Depending on which problem you have).
- anonymous215년 이상I TOTALLY AGREE
- tigerbolt6년 이상i really like animals and i want more animals on earth but this plastic..... i don't like it.
- nerdboy6년 이상i never really trusted plastics
- theking jiuhihg6년 이상i dont want to kill animals