The growing worldwide production of synthetic plastics leads to increased amounts of plastic pollution. Even though microbial degradation of plastics is known to be a very slow process, this capacity has been found in many bacteria, including invertebrate symbionts, and microscopic fungi. Research in...
Figure 2i shows schematically the microbial degradation of biodegradable plastic. Microorganisms attach to the surface of the plastic film and form a biofilm. Some of the microorganisms secrete degradative enzymes that cleave molecular chains on the film surface and break them down into water-soluble ...
Effect of microplastics on soil microbial community and microbial degradation of microplastics in soil: A review The mass production, continual usage, and improper disposal of plastic products have resulted in significant environmental pollution. The larger plastic po... KC Omidoyin,EH Jho - 《Environ...
Microplastics, solid polymer with dimensions less than 5 mm, have drawn a great attention on marine health and bioaccumulation effects. Textile manufacturing processes such as laundering was proven as one of the major sources of microplastics releases to oceans, posing a threat to the marine ecosyste...
bioleaching, biodeterioration, bio-fragmentation, and biotransformation to convert the toxic compounds to non-toxic compounds has been discussed. During the degradation process factors like temperature, pH, initial concentration, O2concentration, N2addition, soluble salts, pollutants both chemical and physical...
Plastic debris widely pollutes freshwaters. Abiotic and biotic degradation of plastics releases carbon-based substrates that are available for heterotrophic growth, but little is known about how these novel organic compounds influence microbial metabolism. Here we found leachate from plastic shopping bags ...
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However, little is known about the impact of this emerging pollutant on soil CO2 emissions and the functional genes related to SOC degradation. In the present study, a short-term (30-day) microcosm experiment was performed to investigate the effects of virgin and aged low-density polyethylene (...
For both inocula, microbial degradation of plastics was investigated under anaerobic and aerobic conditions. Incubations were performed at 55–37 °C, in the assays inoculated with the leachate or the sediment, respectively. The good activity of the inocula was confirmed in control assays with mic...
Activated sludge was studied as a potential biocatalyst for the degradation of microplastics in water [83]. It was initially tested for its ability to hydrolyze PET polymers pretreated at 100 °C for an hour. To assess degradation potential, the consortium undertook a typical CO2evolution test at...