Originally discovered in a compost heap by researchers in 2012, the enzyme reduces the bottles to their initial chemical building blocks which are then recycled to make brand new bottles.

The new and improved enzyme was unveiled in a research paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The team behind the development claimed that even though enzymes of the same kind have been manufactured before, none have come close to the same effectiveness as theirs in terms of being able to degrade plastic bottles.

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