Wissenschaftler erschaffen „lebenden Kunststoff“, der sich auf Befehl selbst zerstören kann

Researchers have developed a new type of plastic that can self-destruct on command. These materials incorporate activatable, plastic-degrading microbes alongside the polymers.

The team used two bacterial strains that worked together and completely broke down the material within just six days, without making microplastics.

Researchers also pointed out that many microbes can break long polymeric chains into smaller pieces using enzymes. Because plastics are polymers, these enzymes or the microbes that make them could be incorporated into living plastics.

Is it cheaper than normal plastic? No? Then no company will use it

So we finally made plastic that knows when to quit, unlike us