This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop low-energy strategies for sustainable recycling and bioenergy production from plastic waste. The key focus is on engineering enzymes for polymer deconstruction and integrating this with electroactive microbes to utilize the degradation products as feedstock for bioenergy generation. The project aims to achieve unprecedented efficiency in plastic waste remediation by combining biological and electrochemical engineering approaches. The research is expected to produce fundamental insights on leveraging genetic engineering and high-throughput screening of electroactive microbes, with the goal of advancing these platform technologies for broader environmental remediation and emissions reduction applications.
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