Tag: green
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Researchers Make an Enzyme to Break Down Plastic in Just a Few Days
Scientists have recently created a “super enzyme” that can break down plastic in a matter of days. In fact, it breaks down plastic up to six times faster than an enzyme they’d created previously. The team of scientists from the University of Portsmouth re-engineered a plastic-eating enzyme called PETase. To speed up the plastic-eating process,…
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23 Useful Ways to Recycle Plastic Bags
There is no denying that plastic bags are convenient. Unfortunately, a majority of them have a single-use nature, which adds to the overall pollution caused by the prevalence of single-use plastics across the world. If you want to help save the environment, there’s still hope. You can give them new life by collecting them after…