In the small town of Gianyar on the Indonesian island of Bali, a man named I Made Wirayuda has invented a way to dissolve plastic bags using a simple enzyme. This invention could play a major role in cleaning up the massive amount of plastic pollution that is clogging up the world’s oceans and waterways.
Wirayuda’s process is simple. He takes a plastic bag, dissolves it in a vat of hot water mixed with an enzyme called cellulase, and then …