Scientists from the University of Portsmouth and the University of Manchester say they have developed a fusion enzyme that ...

Epoch Biodesign has raised $12M to scale its enzymatic nylon recycling process toward a 20,000-tonne commercial plant by 2028 ...

In a new study, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report that a specially engineered enzyme can ...

A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics. The researchers, from the ...

There are more than 30 million tons of plastic waste sitting in American landfills. Those plastics can take hundreds of years to break down naturally. A scientific breakthrough could help clean it up ...

Addressing the global plastic waste crisis, particularly hard-to-recycle blended PET fibers, demands environmentally friendlier recycling methods. Researchers engineered a novel PET hydrolase PET2-21M ...

Connecticut-based company partners with laboratories to explore how enzymes can break down plastic and textile scrap to make new resins. Protein Evolution says its technique can create rPET resin “is ...

In a study published in Bioresource Technology Journal, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report ...

The approach streamlines enzyme production, improves their stability and allows them to be reused in multiple cycles—offering a more sustainable pathway for PET recycling. Enzymatic recycling has ...

On an overcast spring morning in 2012, Federica Bertocchini was tending to her honeybees close to where she lived in Santander, on Spain’s picturesque northern coast. One of the honeycombs “was ...