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Researchers examined what happens to plastic material after microbes metabolize it, tracing where the resulting carbon ends up in the environment. The work looks at biodegradation pathways rather than simply whether plastics disappear visually.
A compiled body of scientific literature examines how microbial and engineered enzymes degrade synthetic polymers, with much of the progress concentrated on PET plastics through hydrolase and cutinase-based approaches. The references trace advances from early enzymatic surface modification studies to more recent engineered PET depolymerases capable of breaking down and recycling plastic bottles at scale.