Technology:
Genaris, Inc., a bio-venture
company in Yokohama, is conducting research on using coliform to produce
materials for semiconductors and PET bottles. This project is capable to changing
drastically the energy situation in 2050. In this project, researchers are
producing industrial materials from waste PET bottles with the help of coliform
on trial. In the laboratory, special equipment stirs up milky liquid in a
beaker, and the liquid in the beaker becomes brown in several hours. That is, coliform
in the beaker got active and started to create a new substance.
Waste PET bottles can be used to
produce such products as fiber. However, rumps like waste liquid are produced
in the process of recycling waster PET bottles. In the rumps, major substances
of PET bottles still exist. The research members are trying to instill the
ability to resolve these major substances into coliform by manipulating
coliform genes. They plan to use the resultant substances as raw materials for semiconductors
and PET bottles.
Oil consumption for resin
production can be reduced to one tenth should the recycling method that uses
coliform be established. The company is confident that it is possible to produce
raw materials equivalent to oil-derived raw materials with the help of plants
and coliform. Coliform cannot be free from a bad image because it causes food
poisoning. However, coliform is mostly harmless, and its genes can be manipulated
easily because it is a single cell. Researchers are trying to change coliform
to super coliform equipped with various abilities.
A researcher is woking on rumps produced
in the process to recycle PET bottles.
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