Enzyme Discovery increases Scope for breaking down Plastics

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...

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