Queens-Canada

October 21, 2023

Queens-Canada # Recircuit # Through Recircuit, we will bridge the gap caused by plastic’s resilience to degradation and cost to recycle by engineering a bacterium that uses PET plastic, found in clear water bottles, as a feedstock for PHB synthesis, a type of bioplastic. Recycling with a biological system not only could be cheaper than chemical methods, but such a system can repurpose PET, which takes hundreds of years to degrade, into a more environmentally friendly alternative that takes just a few weeks. ...