This will help tackle the challenge of plastic pollution and develop biological systems that can convert waste plastic into valuable products and can then be utilised by bacteria to generate sustainable chemicals and materials, essential in making valuable products out of plastic waste., such as playgrounds equipmnet and sports flooring.
In order to beat the global crisis that has erupted due to plastic waste, scientists have taken an important step in developing nature-based solutions.
As part of the UK/US Bottle Consortium project to tackle plastic recycling and upcycling, scientists have used Diamond’s macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamline I03 to characterise an enzyme capable of breaking down terephthalate (TPA), one of the chemical building blocks of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, widely used in-single use items such as drinks bottles. Click to read more.
Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global plastics crisis.
They have characterised .