The title says it all.
Do natural or human engineered enzymes exist that can speed up the break down kitchen utensils, aluminum cans, wires, etc. into small particles or powders?
To be clear I am not talking about chemical transformation (e.g. iron turning to rust).
There are bacteria, which can assist the proces of rust.
"Some sulfate-reducing bacteria produce hydrogen sulfide, which can cause sulfide stress cracking. Acidithiobacillus bacteria produce sulfuric acid; Acidothiobacillus thiooxidans frequently damages sewer pipes. Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans directly oxidizes iron to iron oxides and iron hydroxides; the rusticles forming on RMS Titanic wreck are caused by bacterial activity. Other bacteria produce various acids, both organic and mineral, or ammonia." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_corrosion)
As you see, many of these active ingredients, like hydrogen sulfide, sulfuric acid, other acids or ammonia are not enzymes per se, although they are produced by enzymatic processes in bacteria.
Closer to your specification is Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans (synonyms: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, Ferrobacillus sulfooxidans), which directly acts on iron by enzymes associated with the cell membrane:
Figure 1. Schematic representation of ferrous iron oxidation by the Gram-negative autotrophic acidophile, At. ferrooxidans. Controlled influx of protons is used to generate ATP via the membrane-bound ATP synthetase complex (ATPase). Iron oxidation is mediated by a cytochrome located on the outer membrane and electrons transferred via periplasmic cytochromes and rusticyanin either to a terminal oxidase (“downhill pathway,” indicated in brown text and by **) where they are used to reduce oxygen, or used to reduce NAD+ (“uphill pathway,” indicated red text and by *) in a reaction also driven by the proton motive force across the inner membrane (Bonnefoy and Holmes, 2011). Source: Johnson et al. 2012.
Non-oxidized metals are rarely substrates for enzymes, although they can be used as electron donors in some reactions.
But you are asking about enzymes capable of cleaving metallic bonds without oxidation, and neither can I recall something of this kind, nor can imagine a biological role for such a reaction.
