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Sending a Message to Plastic Bottles

PET-eating enzyme provides hope for garbage crisis.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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And now, for some good news. Researchers from Britain's University of Portsmouth and the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) say they have discovered a plastic-eating enzyme that could help solve the world's garbage proglems.  They're discovery was made while examining the structure of a natural enzyme found in a waste recycling center a few years ago in Japan.   They say the enzyme, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, is able to &#8220...

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