Enzymatic Breakdown

The reaction happens within a few hours at room temperature, suggesting that enzymatic breakdown may be a route to making use of polyethylene waste. They also say that like there was a separate study that was related to this published last week that says that creating a mirror image version of a plastic degrading enzyme means it's much more resistant to breaking down itself. So we're already figuring out ways to prolong the enzyme in an environment. That's wild as hell,. But they do say that the high expense of chemically synthesizing mirror image enzymes is probably not going to be economically worth it yet. It's interesting that this research is already picking up steam this quickly. That's rad.