New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster

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12. Money will halt this process in its tracks

It would need significant seed capital. And inducements to use recycled materials. And a knee-capping of the existing crude-to-plastics industries, all of whom will complain of financial hardship, and turn to production of other materials. I doubt you'll get less plastic out of this. You'll get significantly more.

I remember in the early 1990s they were going to build houses from plastic lumber. Structural lumber. I think GE built a prototype house in New England. Never heard another word of it. Of course when the last forest is harvested they will be seeking new materials. That should juice plastic production.