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Engineered enzymes that break PET plastic back into building blocks for new plastic.
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Tournier and colleagues engineered an enzyme that breaks PET into its monomers, which were used to make near-petrochemical-grade PET for new bottles.
As reported in: Tournier, Topham, Gilles et al. (2020). An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles. Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2149-4
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