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Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a new way to deal with plastic was.
Greg Beckham, a scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, said they were studying the structure of an enzyme in a bacterium that was found to "eat" plastic outside a bottle recycling plant in Jap.
Beckham explained: "We are constantly trying to analyze how this enzyme breaks down plastic in various ways, but we did not expect to mutate the enzyme to make it more capable of breaking down plast.
The second big breakthrough was mixing ground plastic bottles with biodegradable substances from plan.
When researchers combine them in a very specific way, they can create a completely new type of plastic material that is not only stronger but also lighter than current oil-based materia.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory plans to have a pilot program up and running within a few years that will break down a ton of PET plastic a day, which will be used to make turbine blades at the nearby National Wind Energy Technology Cent.
