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 …

Environmental concerns over waste plastics' effect on the environment are leading to the
creation of biodegradable plastics. Biodegradable plastics may serve as a promising …

Protein design aims to build novel proteins customized for specific purposes, thereby
holding the potential to tackle many environmental and biomedical problems. Recent …

Transformation of biomass and plastic wastes to value-added chemicals and fuels is
considered an upcycling process that is beneficial to resource utilization. Electrocatalysis …

The introduction of the E Factor in 1992 focussed attention on the problem of waste
generation, defined as everything but the desired product, in chemicals manufacture and …

Although considerable research achievements have been made to address the plastic crisis
using enzymes, their applications are limited due to incomplete degradation and low …

Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

Plastic pollution is rapidly increasing worldwide, causing adverse impacts on the
environment, wildlife and human health. One tempting solution to this crisis is upcycling …

In recent years, enzymatic recycling of the widely used polyester polyethylene terephthalate
(PET) has become a complementary solution to current thermomechanical recycling for …

Natural proteins are highly optimized for function but are often difficult to produce at a scale
suitable for biotechnological applications due to poor expression in heterologous systems …