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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- beat my feet약 6년im tierd of us killing innocent animals
- ninja's hyper약 6년poor animals we need to stop throwing stuff in the trash or stop using plastic because its really effecting theses animals
- aurorga약 6년i also want to say that turtles are great we need to stop killing them because without turtles we wouldn't have turtles
- Blackglitter약 6년Recycling is a good thing so we can make new things. Did anyone know if you recycle one bottle, that can save up to a hour of TV for us!
chlooe6년 이상So many things that’re Able to recycle!- chey6년 이상turkeys are weird..... there's a turkey mayor
- Buzzy bee6년 이상That would be great for dealing with all the trash we have instead of shooting it up into space in a rocket ship and creating more space junk which is bad for the ISS and other satellites .
- Purplekat6666666년 이상This is very interesting!! (P.S Man these rules are strict.)
- moning6년 이상so cool and that is good for our planet
- NinjaGamingCat6년 이상I really hope this works. If it does, then the earth is saved. From one problem.