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University of Texas-Austin: Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
April 28, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas, April 28 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release on April 27, 2022:

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An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.

This discovery, published today in Nature, could help solve one of the world's most pressing environmental problems: what t . . .

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