Dehradun: A big good news for India and Himalayan States. IIT Roorkee has discovered a 3D structure bacterial enzyme that can help in faster degradation of plastics and plasticizers, which are still considered non-biodegradable.
IIT Roorkee team led by Prof Ravindra Kumar of the Department of Biosciences and Bio-engineering (BSBE), discovered this 3D structure of bacterial enzymes that will eat up the pollutants of the plastics. This will help in faster degradation of the plastics and plasticizers. These are still considered non-biodegradable”, IIT Team said.
This discovery of the bacterial enzymes was revealed by the IIT Roorkee on social media platform that has gone viral. The new discovery has come as a big hope for India more particularly to Himalayan states which are battling the trash and junk crisis of vast dimension, chocking rivers, streams and open spaces in towns and cities across the region and India as whole.
“We congratulate professor Ravindra Kumar and his team members Jaykrishan, Neetu and Monica Sharma for this tremendous achievement. The pollutants present in plastics are very harmful not only for the humans but also for the environment, said IIT, Roorkee head.
The researchers have been trying to develop and discover enzymes and bacteria that can eat up or help degrade the pollutants present in plastics but they had not succeeded so far.
The findings of the IIT Roorkee will be published in Journal of Bacteriology published from the USA in this month.
