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       <p>Our ambition is to design a system capable of producing an interesting molecule from the digestion products of plastic pollutants.</p>
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       <p>PlastiCure is a biological system based on E.coli designed to degrade plastics and use the degradation products to produce Biologically active compounds.
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The challenge of the project is to make this two pathways work simultaneously
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By engineering the metabolism of E .coli we want to create a system able to produce a curative product and in the same time help address the issue of plastic pollution.
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The idea here is first to create a new way to treat plastic waste but also to produce from plastic a profitable transformation product that will increase efforts in plastic recycling.
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<p>The PlastiCure project solves two problems:</p>
 
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      <li>Degradation of plastic waste : with a system of bio-degradation of plastic, our bacteria will transforme it to a viable product</li>
 
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      <li>Synthesis of a medicine : with our product and a biosynthesis way, we want to product a medecine.</li>
 
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Revision as of 15:28, 1 July 2015

Plasticure

The Problem

In 2012, 25.2 million tons of plastic waste were produced in Europe, among which only 26 % were recycled while 36 % were burned in order to produce energy and the remaining 38 % were dumped or buried.

Our solution

PlastiCure is a biological system based on E.coli designed to degrade plastics and use the degradation products to produce Biologically active compounds. The challenge of the project is to make this two pathways work simultaneously By engineering the metabolism of E .coli we want to create a system able to produce a curative product and in the same time help address the issue of plastic pollution. The idea here is first to create a new way to treat plastic waste but also to produce from plastic a profitable transformation product that will increase efforts in plastic recycling.