It is estimated that ~51 and ~400 million tons of plastic waste is generated each year, in US and globally, respectively. US EPA estimates that less than 9% of plastic gets recycled in US; remaining fills up landfills or burned producing pollutants. Most of the plastic recycling today is mechanical or chemical recycling which is energy-intensive costly process, producing inferior quality of plastic. We have designed a solar powered “Plastivore Trashcan” with 5 compartments that can shred, oxidize, and degrade the plastic using our novel “plastic eating bacterial enzyme tablet” (PEBET). PEBET consists of extracted enzymes from the saliva and gut bacteria of different species of worms and fungi that can digest plastic. The plastivore trashcan byproduct is glycol which is reacted with sodium acetate and safely converted to safe end products and disposed without any hazards.