Plastic Monster: A Method for the Industrial Degradation of PET
- Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Course: EN.540.314 ChemBE Product Design
Project Description:
A proposed market, method and product for converting traditional PET recycling plants into facilities that break down PET into its useful monomers, ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid. The product is a buffered solution containing two engineered hydrolases, PETase and MHETase, derived from the organism Ideonella sakaiensis.
Project Photo:
Overcoming plastic wastelands with the power enzymes.