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Scientists accidentally engineer enzyme to eat plastic waste

ephoph April 17, 2018, 11:36pm 61

Sounds like this story from last year: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/wax-worms-eat-plastic-polyethylene-trash-pollution-cleanup/

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