Adipic acid is used, among other things, for the production of nylon 6.6 and polyester polyols.
Years ago, Stephen Wallace, with another team, developed an E. coli strain that converts the main ingredient in old PET bottles, namely terephthalic acid, into the vanilla flavouring agent vanillin. (FAPU already reported on it in 2018)
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What would be of interest for me is: How many of these E. coli bacteria do you need to produce how many kg of adipic acid from 1 ton of PET waste? (The article states the efficiency to be almost 80%.