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New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster (theguardian.com)
9 points by gmays on Oct 3, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Sounds cool, but what is the waste product when the enzyme breaks down the plastic? Matter isn’t destroyed...only converted.


Enzymes don't eat they accelerate. Enzymes lower the amount of energy that must be put in for a specific reaction to begin.




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