This Startup's AI Designs Enzymes That Can Eat Plastic Waste [Forbes]
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Source: Forbes
Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg's Protein Evolution found a solution: using AI to create enzymes that can recycle old polyester textiles into a material that acts new. Now the three-year-old company needs to prove that it can scale up. I n a lab tucked away in an old gun factory in New Haven, Connecticut, a machine heated plastic waste to 536 degrees Fahrenheit and spat out gloopy strings of material that start to harden when they hit the air. This substance — made of textiles and post-industrial scrap that were destined for a landfill — will be ground to bits to create as much surface area as possible. It's about to become food for an enzyme designed with the help of artificial intelligence, made by the startup Protein Evolution. The company's ambition is to use AI to engineer new enzymes that are able to break down plastics and plastic-based textiles. “What happens next is we feed it to the sharks,” joked chief technology office
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