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Researchers say they’ve found the solution to endlessly recycle the most common plastic, PET. And this thanks to a particularly effective enzyme, which breaks down (depolymerizes) the plastic and allows its reuse, they explain in a article published in the prestigious journal Nature. A major advance because current recycling processes are not completely circular: plastic gradually loses its properties and ends up as waste. This project mobilizes around twenty people within the Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (CNRS, Inrae, Insa), who work in conjunction with the French company of green chemistry Carbios. Researchers have reviewed enzymes that can break down PET, the plastic that makes up our water bottles. They retained the most promising, unearthed in the compos
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