25 Aug 2022 --- Researchers from The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) have developed an engineering platform capable of evolving enzymes for PET depolymerization with characteristics that would be necessary for an industrial-scale PET degrading biocatalyst.Elizabeth Bell, a leading scientist in this research tells PackagingInsights that “biocatalytic recycling is an exciting complementary strategy to add to the plastics recycling toolkit. Previously one of the challenges to using biocatalytic recycling on a wider scale was the lack of suitable enzymes and an inability to engineer them to meet process demands quickly and efficiently.”
