Recycling plastic with enzymes

By Phillip Broadwith2023-06-27T13:47:00

Source: © Carbios

Carbios can return even hard-to-recycle polyester fibres and textiles to their constituent monomers

French biotechnology start-up Carbios has developed an enzymatic process for recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET) back into its constituent monomers, from which new plastic can be produced with the same properties as virgin material.