Scientist accidentally improved Plastic Eating Enzyme
Plastic is handy we go to market, shop, get things packed with plastic, we use and dispose them. From water to soft drinks, they come in PET bottle which is a common form of Plastic, Polyethylene terephthalate. Plastic pollution is a growing problem for the world we know, though plastics can be produced easily but it needs a lot of time to degrade naturally, PET bottles degrade in more than 450 years , other plastics may take more than 1000 years. Though plastics can be recycled but because of lack of awareness or will only 15% or less is recycled every year. About 1 million plastic bottles are sold every minute around the globe and if the recycling proportion is this little then its a huge problem. In 2016 there was a discovery by the Japanese Scientist. A Bacterium, named Ideonella sakaiensis , was found from waste dump that can eat one of the most common plastic form PET (Polyethylene terephthalate). It was thought to be a huge turning point in plastic recycling.