This Startup's AI Designs Enzymes That Can Eat Plastic Waste

Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using AI to create enzymes that can recycle old polyester textiles into a material that acts new. Now the three-year-old company needs to prove that it can scale up.
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[@testingapps2145]

2:30 "number of plastic eating enzymes are greater than the atoms in the universe", you mean the variations?

[@isaac_ssu]

Wow! This is a great initiative actually, to stop the vast spread of plastic pollution and global warming, we need to see more entrepreneurs with such innovations business ideas that support the creation of a CIRCULAR ECONOMY. Am Zambian🇿🇲, and am part of a local company which recycles organic waste into animal feed. #letsSaveOurPlanet #NutriCyclePlus

[@yudha_saputra]

My suggestion is for this plastic waste, made for furniture, pipa water for modern agricultural irrigation, disassembled dumbbells etc

[@EcomCarl]

Using AI to tackle plastic waste is a brilliant move! Excited to see Protein Evolution lead the way in making textiles fully recyclable with this enzyme innovation. 🌿

[@fuzzyspackage]

Is this injectable and can we expand the scope of plastics?

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Anything that can help reduce the plastic waste is good for the planet and its inhabitants. 🌏

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GREAT IDEA AND BREAKTHROUGH GUYS!!! Let’s clean up the oceans and save the planet and fish and amphibians!!!

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ur right, but it might prove invaluable in certain fields.