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Can plastic-eating enzymes solve the recycling problem?



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The invention of the first man-made plastic, celluloid, in the nineteenth century was hailed as revolutionary. With the discovery came a seemingly infinite conveyor-belt of products, newly affordable to the average consumer. No industry was left untouched by this cheap, malleable, bountiful resource.

Today — as plastic clogs our oceans, flows from landfills and sends plumes of smoke into the atmosphere in the rush to burn it — attitudes are a little different.