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Wei, Ren
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- 2022Rapid depolymerization of poly(ethylene terephthalate) thin films by a dual-enzyme system and its impact on material propertiescitations
- 2021MIXed plastics biodegradation and UPcycling using microbial communitiescitations
- 2021Biocatalysis in the Recycling Landscape for Synthetic Polymers and Plastics towards Circular Textilescitations
- 2021MIXed plastics biodegradation and UPcycling using microbial communities: EU Horizon 2020 project MIX-UP started January 2020citations
- 2021MIXed plastics biodegradation and UPcycling using microbial communities: EU Horizon 2020 project MIX-UP started January 2020citations
- 2019Microbial Genes for a Circular and Sustainable Bio-PET Economycitations
- 2019Microbial genes for a circular and sustainable Bio-PET Economy.citations
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Microbial Genes for a Circular and Sustainable Bio-PET Economy
Abstract
Plastics have become an important environmental concern due to their durability and resistance to degradation. Out of all plastic materials, polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are amenable to biological degradation due to the action of microbial polyester hydrolases. The hydrolysis products obtained from PET can thereby be used for the synthesis of novel PET as well as become a potential carbon source for microorganisms. In addition, microorganisms and biomass can be used for the synthesis of the constituent monomers of PET from renewable sources. The combination of both biodegradation and biosynthesis would enable a completely circular bio-PET economy beyond the conventional recycling processes. Circular strategies like this could contribute to significantly decreasing the environmental impact of our dependence on this polymer. Here we review the efforts made towards turning PET into a viable feedstock for microbial transformations. We highlight current bottlenecks in degradation of the polymer and metabolism of the monomers, and we showcase fully biological or semisynthetic processes leading to the synthesis of PET from sustainable substrates.