A team of international scientists has unveiled a breakthrough recycling process that could dramatically reduce the financial and environmental toll of PET plastic, the most common material in bottles and food containers, potentially transforming how the world handles its plastic waste.
The new method, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and including Professor Andrew Pickford, the Director of the Centre for Enzyme Innovation (CEI) at the University of Portsmouth, introduces a series of innovations that charts a path to making future enzymatic recycling of PET not only environmentally sustainable but also cheaper than producing new plastic from fossil fuels. Read more here.