Plastic pollution is one of the most serious environmental problems in the world. More than 300 million tons of plastic materials are being produced every year.
Most of them are being dumped carelessly in land or water, which results in a much worse problem that some of the food we partake contains microplastics from eating fishes or any seafood.
A lot of environmental groups already demanded single-use plastic, but the production still increases over time.
To help curb this issue, a group of researchers from the Center for Enzyme Innovation in the UK and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado created "super-enzymes" that they engineered to break down plastic materials within a couple of days only.
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