“The research scanned more than 200 million genes found in DNA samples taken from the environment and found 30,000 different enzymes that could degrade 10 different types of plastic.”
One in four microbes sampled carried an enzyme that can break down plastic. The enzymes match how much plastic is polluting each location. Evolution is cleaning up after us, slowly. That is not a solution. It is a measure of how much plastic is already in the soil and sea.