Highlights•Biological recycling of petroleum-based plastics.•Advances in enzymatic PET
recycling.•Biological catalysts for recycling non-PET plastics.•Utilization of biologically …

Certain members of the Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria are known to degrade
polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Here, we describe the first functional PET-active enzymes …

The biocatalytic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) emerged recently as a
promising alternative plastic recycling method. However, limited activity of previously known …

Accumulation of plastic wastes and their effects on the ecosystem have triggered an alarm
regarding environmental damage, which explains the massive investigations over the past …

The degradation of polyethylene terephthalate (transparency sheets) by microbes and
esterase was studied. Important chemical changes of polymeric chains were detected by X …

Plastic materials are composed of large polymeric molecules constructed by multiple
additions of one type of a small molecule called monomer (homopolymer) or by two or more …

Plastics are widely used in daily life. Due to poor management and disposal, about 80% of
plastic wastes were buried in landfills and eventually became land and ocean waste …

Enzymatic degradation is a promising green approach to bioremediation and recycling of
the polymer poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET). In the past few years, several PET …

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most widely used plastics in the world.
Accumulation of the discarded PET in the environment is creating a global environmental …

Using enzymes to hydrolyze and recycle poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) is an attractive
eco-friendly approach to manage the ever-increasing PET wastes, while one major …