This Startup's AI Designs Enzymes That Can Eat Plastic Waste

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.
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[@isaac_ssu]

Wow! This is a great initiative actually, to stop the vast spread of plastic pollution and global warming, we need to see more entrepreneurs with such innovations business ideas that support the creation of a CIRCULAR ECONOMY. Am Zambian🇿🇲, and am part of a local company which recycles organic waste into animal feed. #letsSaveOurPlanet #NutriCyclePlus

[@EcomCarl]

Using AI to tackle plastic waste is a brilliant move! Excited to see Protein Evolution lead the way in making textiles fully recyclable with this enzyme innovation. 🌿

[@mnomadvfx]

It's all bulls**t though. AI didn't design those enzymes from scratch. It had a starting point with plastic eating 'worms' that hold bacteria in their gut which produces the enzymes. Without that starting point AI wouldn't be worth spit to solve the problem.

[@MustangKepler]

2:30 "number of plastic eating enzymes are greater than the atoms in the universe", you mean the variations?

[@yudha_saputra]

My suggestion is for this plastic waste, made for furniture, pipa water for modern agricultural irrigation, disassembled dumbbells etc

[@mnomadvfx]

I vote no for anything coming into contact with water that will be used in food production. FFS just inject the microplastics into us why don't you?! After hearing about the microplastics problem I started thinking I'd pay my dad to replace his plastic plumbing pipes with copper.

[@fuzzyspackage]

Is this injectable and can we expand the scope of plastics?

[@FukutenshiYoufan]

Anything that can help reduce the plastic waste is good for the planet and its inhabitants. 🌏

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GREAT IDEA AND BREAKTHROUGH GUYS!!! Let’s clean up the oceans and save the planet and fish and amphibians!!!

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The AI hype train will soon die down just like the Electric car

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ur right, but it might prove invaluable in certain fields.

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Hype or not both are here to stay.