already that are that are breaking down our p.t. waste plastic that s out there now and in nature what we envision for and in semantic strategy like this that we re working on is instead of you know the current paradigm for recycling p.t. is bringing it to a centralized facility using mechanical recycling to chop it up and then typically that sort of chop to p.t. is then put into carpet or lower value materials such as seat cushions and things like this i can t go back to bottles and so what we want to do now is if we can in the magic strategy to break it down truly to its building blocks the building blocks can be put back into bottles for example so you could bottle to bottle recycling technology enabled by these and signs ok basically in order to enable a circular economy for these materials so dark i can tell me this the are you saying that this landfill in japan they re talking about are you saying that nature had already created some type of mutant in zine that was already eating
or biological strategy this is one step on a very long road that s going to take a lot of collective effort across the technology spectrum so what this in dr beck and are we talking about in time that we can literally be let s say put into a landfill that s full of plastic bottles will this ins on basically eat away these plastics. that s a great question so the enzyme was originally discovered in by a group of japanese researchers says the story of course that in twenty sixteen it was discovered in the soil outside of a recycling p.t. recycling plant so there are bacteria and microbes in the soil already that are that are breaking down our p.t. waste plastic that s out there now in nature what we envision for and in semantic strategy like this that we re working on is an instead of you know the current paradigm for recycling petey is bringing it to a centralized facility using mechanical recycling to chop it up and then typically
was discovered in the soil outside of a recycling peaty recycling plant so there are bacteria and microbes in the soil already that are that are breaking down our p.t. waste plastic that s out there now and nature what we envision for and in semantic strategy like this that we re working on is instead of you know the current paradigm for recycling p.t. is bringing it to a centralized facility using mechanical recycling to chop it up and then typically that sort of chop to p.t. is then put into carpet or lower value materials such as seat cushions and things like this i can t go back to bottles and so what we want to do now is if we can in the magic strategy to break it down truly to its building blocks those building blocks can be put back into bottles for example so you could bottle to bottle recycling technology enabled by these and signs ok basically in order to enable a circular economy for these materials so dark i can tell me this there are you saying that this landfill in japan