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For example has been in popular use for about the last forty to fifty years right plastic bottles for example for water so it only emerged about a half a century ago for widespread use and you know these these are essentially food sources for bacteria and other microbes in dirt in landfills in the ocean and water of course there are pollutants and we want to get rid of them as much as possible but bacteria are opportunists and theyre going to take advantage of new carbon or new food sources that...

Plastics thats 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 peaty recycling plant so there are bacteria and microbes in the soil already that are that are breaking down our p.t. waste plastic thats out there now in nature and what we envision for and it is a manic strategy like this that were working on is instead of you know the current paradigm ...

A circular economy for these materials so so dark and i can tell me this there are you saying that this landfill in japan theyre talking about are you saying that nature had already created some type of mutant in zines that was already eating away at our plastics. absolutely so p.t. for example has been in popular use for about the last forty to fifty years right plastic bottles for example for water so it only emerged about a half a century ago for widespread use and you know these these are es...

I think the scope of the plastics pollution problem is enormous and while this study is exciting and promising and i think it demonstrates a lot of promise for potentially being able to recycle plastic using it in some magic or biological strategy this is one step on a very long road thats going to take a lot of collective effort across the technology spectrum solve what this in dr beck and are we talking about in time that we can literally be lets say put into a landfill thats full of plastic b...

That sort of chopped up e.t. is then put into carpet or lower value materials such as seat cushions and things like this i cant go back to bottles and so what we want to do now is to 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 can do bottle to bottle recycling technology enabled by these and zines basically in order to enable a circular economy for these materials so so dark and i can tell me ...

Or biological strategy this is one step on a very long road thats 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 lets say put into a landfill thats full of plastic bottles will this ins on basically eat away these plastics. thats 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...

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 thats out there now and nature what we envision for and in semantic strategy like this that were 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 car...

Had already created some type of mutant inzamam that was already eating away at our plastics. absolutely so p.t. for example has been in popular use for about the last forty to fifty years right plastic bottles for example for water so it only emerged about a half a century ago for widespread use and you know these these are essentially food sources for bacteria and other microbes in dirt in landfills in the ocean and water of course there are pollutants and we want to get rid of them as much as...

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