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Contaminated soils may foster microbes adapted to degrade plastics or derivatives, and these organisms and their enzymes offer promising avenues for the development of biotechnological recycling strategies. Here, two microbial communities originating from soil collected at a plastic-contaminated site in Norway were enriched to select for bacteria involved in the decomposition of a widely used, model polyethylene (low molecular weight, LMWPE; average carbon chain length of 279). We leveraged genome-resolved metatranscriptomics to identify active populations affiliated with Acinetobacter guillouiae and Pseudomonas sp., showing a suite of upregulated genes (including those encoding alkane 1-monooxygenases, Baeyer\u2013Villiger monooxygenases, and cytochrome P450 monooxygenases) with functions compatible with degradation of medium- and long-chain hydrocarbons and their oxidized derivatives. 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