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Researchers Combined Two Enzymes, MHETase and PETase, To Create A Super Enzyme, Which Degrades Plastic 6X Faster Than The Previous Engineered Enzyme, PETase. This Innovation Has Implications In Quickly Degrading The Most Commonly Used Thermoplastics, Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), Which Takes 100s Of Years To Degrade In The Environment.

Scientists Develop Super-Enzyme That Eats Plastic Six Times Faster to Combat Pollution | The Weather Channel

https://weather.com/en-IN/india/pollution/news/2020-09-29-scientists-develop-super-enzyme-eats-plastics-six-times-faster

The study also says that the discovery of this bacterium suggests that nature may be evolving similar deconstruction strategies for synthetic plastic.