Enzymes’ Power for Plastics Degradation

Plastics are everywhere in our modern way of living, and their production keeps increasing every year, causing major environmental concerns. Nowadays, the end-of-life management involves accumulation in landfills, incineration, and recycling to a lower extent. This ecological threat to the environment is inspiring alternative bio-based solutions for plastic waste treatment and recycling toward a circular economy. Over the past decade, considerable efforts have been made to degrade commodity plastics using biocatalytic approaches. Here, we provide a comprehensive review on the recent advances in enzyme-based biocatalysis and in the design of related biocatalytic processes to recycle or upcycle commodity…

• EC
  European Commission

  Award: LIFE20 ENV/FR/000596
• AD
  Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie

  Award: 1882C0098
• UD
  Université de Bordeaux