Posts Tagged ‘Plastic-Eating Enzyme’
Science: Researchers Develop A Potentially Useful Plastic-Eating Enzyme (Video)
Okay, the breakthrough we hope for in the real world is years away. But considering the fact that much of the plastic waste we produce will otherwise not break down for millennia, scientists may as well get started. And they have… accidentally.
Professor John McGeehan of Portsmouth University, co-lead author on a paper detailing an accidental discovery that could help cure our plastic waste problem, speaks with News Stream.
– CNN
They discovered the enzyme by accident. Yeah, so?? Rubber was an accident, too.
– @ojones1