April 27, 2022 Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste . by University of Texas at Austin Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days. This discovery, published today in Nature , could help solve one of the world's mo...