More than 90 percent of plastic remains unrecycled, and as a result, billions of tons of plastic reside in landfills (or worse, in natural environments) around the world. This snowballing environmental disaster has caught the attention of researchers from a wide range of fields, who have proposed solutions ranging from the robotic to the chemical for collecting and breaking down plastic waste. Now, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have created an enzyme variant that can break down these plastics—a discovery made possible by supercomputing.
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