Plastic Eating enzymes Are going to feast!
The danger of rapidly increasing plastic pollution to the environment around the world will now end soon. This has been possible with the efforts of scientists. In fact, scientists at Portsmouth University in England have designed an enzyme that will cleave a large pile of plastic within a few days. It usually takes 600 to 1000 years for a plastic item to be completely destroyed. But through these super enzymes developed by the scientists of Pottsmouth University, now plastic waste can be destroyed in a few days. This super enzyme made by scientists is capable of decomposing plastic six times faster than any other enzyme.
Confluence of two enzymes
Scientists have developed this super enzyme by combining two plastic-eating enzymes. It will clean the environment by destroying plastic waste and prevent millions of tons of plastic waste from entering the seas every year. These are two special enzymes patties and fenugreek which are made from a particular type of bacteria. These bacteria survive by eating plastic bottles.
Six times faster
This new enzyme, which eats plastic, was discovered in 2018. Its bacteria also live on plastic. The plastic feeding capacity of this new super enzyme is six times more than this patented enzyme. Pottsmouth University researcher and lead author of the study Professor John McGeehan said that the building boxes we are currently getting from ‘fossil’ resources such as oil and gas can now be obtained by decomposing the plastic used. The study has recently been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America.
Why worry about plastic waste
-11 million (10 million) tons of plastic waste is being dumped in the seas every year.
– 29 million tons of plastic waste will be on Earth by 2040.
-80 percent of the total marine waste is plastic.
-10 lakh seabirds and 1 lakh aquatic animals are killed by plastic pollution.
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