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The article  titled “Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste'', revealed to the readers that researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an enzyme variant that can accelerate the degradation of environmentally harmful plastics in hours or days instead of centuries. The article also stated that the researchers mainly focused on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a polymer most commonly found in consumer packaging and certain fibers and textiles. This enzyme variant is able to disintegrate the plastic into smaller parts (depolymerization) and then put it back together (repolymerization) which begins the upcycling process. Lavars (2022) mentioned that plastic-eating enzymes were first created in 2016, and among the factors that have hindered the application of this plastic-eating enzyme are its inability to function at low temperatures and different pH ranges, its inability to treat untreated plastic waste directly, and its slow ...

According to “WAPA Porous Asphalt Pavements Design Guide” (2015), it is determined that the design of a porous asphalt mix entails selecting an appropriate aggregate grading and blending it with a target binder content. The stability of its aggregate gradation is dependent on increasing the coarse aggregate matrix's stone-to-stone contact. The coarse aggregates are held together by the asphalt mortar, which is made up of asphalt, fine aggregates, and mineral filler. As a result, asphalt binder, aggregates, and mineral filler are critical components to consider.   The design of porous asphalt pavements (Figure 3), unlike conventional pavements. The Federal Highway Administration (2012) provides a technical brief on the porosity and permeability of porous asphalt pavements, with recommendations for testing and evaluation of these properties. The pavements are typically built over an uncompacted subgrade to maximize infiltration through the soil. Above the uncompacted subgrade is...

The Levy (2022) article that is posted on The University of Texas at Austin news site, titled “Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste'', revealed to the readers that researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an enzyme variant that can accelerate the degradation of environmentally harmful plastics in hours or days instead of centuries. The article also stated that the researchers mainly focused on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a polymer most commonly found in consumer packaging and certain fibers and textiles. This enzyme variant is able to disintegrate the plastic into smaller parts (depolymerization) and then put it back together (repolymerization) which begins the upcycling process. Lavars (2022) mentioned that plastic-eating enzymes were first created in 2016, and among the factors that have hindered the application of this plastic-eating enzyme are its inability to function at low temperatures and different pH rang...

  The Levy (2022) article that is posted on The University of Texas at Austin news site, titled “Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste'', revealed to the readers that researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an enzyme variant that can accelerate the degradation of environmentally harmful plastics in hours or days instead of centuries. The article also stated that the researchers mainly focused on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a polymer most commonly found in consumer packaging and certain fibers and textiles. This enzyme variant is able to disintegrate the plastic into smaller parts (depolymerization) and then put it back together (repolymerization) which begins the upcycling process. Lavars (2022) mentioned that plastic-eating enzymes were first created in 2016, and among the factors that have hindered the application of this plastic-eating enzyme are its inability to function at low temperatures and different pH ra...

The article, “Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste'' by The University of Texas at Austin (2022), revealed that researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an enzyme variant that can accelerate the degradation of environmentally harmful plastics in hours or days instead of centuries. The researchers mainly focused on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a polymer most commonly found in consumer packaging and certain fibers and textiles. This enzyme variant is able to disintegrate the plastic into smaller parts (depolymerization) and then put it back together (repolymerization) which begins the upcycling process. Plastic eating enzymes were first created in 2016. Among the factors that have hindered the application of this plastic-eating enzyme are its inability to function at low temperatures and different pH ranges, its inability to treat untreated plastic waste directly, and its slow reaction times (Malewar, 2022).  However...

The article, “Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste'' by The University of Texas at Austin (2022), revealed that researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an enzyme variant that can accelerate the degradation of environmentally harmful plastics in hours or days instead of centuries. The researchers mainly focused on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a polymer most commonly found in consumer packaging and certain fibers and textiles. This enzyme variant is able to disintegrate the plastic into smaller parts (depolymerization) and then put it back together (repolymerization) which begins the upcycling process. Plastic eating enzymes were first created in 2016. Among the factors that have hindered the application of this plastic-eating enzyme are its inability to function at low temperatures and different pH ranges, its inability to treat untreated plastic waste directly, and its slow reaction times (Malewar, 2022).  However...