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    Only 12% of plastic waste in the UK is recycled a year, and "super bugs" bring dawn to degradable plastics

    • Last Update: 2022-08-16
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Recently, 100,000 households in the UK took part in a "Big Plastic Count" survey to count how much plastic waste they discarded in a week in M.


    Caption: Figures released by the British government show that British households will generate 5 million tons of plastic waste in 202

    According to the European Times, the "Plastic Big Statistics" project is jointly implemented by the NGOs Greenpeace and Everyday Plast.


    "The amount of plastic waste is staggering," said Chris, a plastics campaigner at Greenpeace .


    "Recycling doesn't work, we all know it," said Weber, founder of Daily Plasti.


    If plastic cannot be reduced at source in the short term, is there any way?

    The answer may lie in the University of Queensland, Austral.


    The research team from the University of Queensland said that these insects, scientifically called zophobas morio, survive by eating rotten wood, leaves, and animal carcasses, but scientists unexpectedly discovered that they produce a special enzyme when decomposing plastic, which "eats" th.


    At present, the research team is conducting research on this special enzyme, hoping that one day, the extracted enzymes will be able to degrade plastics on a larger scale without relying on insect far.


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