Plastic Solution

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The first plastic eating bacteria (Ideonella Sakaiensis 201-F6) was discovered in a Japanese waste dump.

Some Statistics:
Global Plastic Production: 8-10 Billion Tonnes per Year with only 8-10 % possible Recycling.
PET (polyethylene terephthalate): Natural degradation 450 years
6% of global oil production is devoted to the production of plastics.

Solution to the problem:
1)      Ideonella Sakaiensis 201-F6 (Bacterium):
Produces enzymes to breakdown PET (PolyEthylene Terephthalate).
Scientists have already enhanced this natural enzyme and produced mutant enzymes that is far superior in the job.

2)      Waxworm Caterpillars (Galleria Mellonella):
Each Waxworm can create an average of 2.2 holes per hour and break down plastic in a matter of hours—about a hundred waxworms could eat 96 milligrams of plastic in 12 hours, to be precise.

3)      Mealworms:
Possess gut microbes that helps them to safely eat Stryofoams/Polysterene.
100 mealworms that consumed 34 to 39 milligrams of Styrofoam, which is about the weight of a pill, every day.

4)      Fusarium OxySporum (Biocatalyst Fungus):

A Cutinase from the mesophilic fungus Fusarium oxysporum, named FoCut5a, was expressed either in the cytoplasm or periplasm of Escherichia coli BL21 that can modify plastic naturally.

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