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Worldwide, researchers are hunting for a kind of `secret sauce’ — a souped-up enzyme capable of breaking down some of the most resilient plastics.

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[-] pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

I guess the benefit is that it can get rid of plastic in the wild, after we've incorrectly disposed of it.

But yeah, burning this plastic in a waste-to-energy plant with proper carbon capture seems the ideal way to handle the end-of-life of plastic.

We should really be looking at stopping its production in the first place, though.

[-] kozy138@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Stopping production or limiting it to a few uses like medical purposes will be a more important factor

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