use plastic products accompanied by a “throw-away” culture, which is proven problematic [10,11]. Third, during the end-of-life, because the majority of plastics are non-degradable, those mostly accumulate in the natural environment by being buried in landfills or mismanaged (79%), incinerat...
Recycling 2019, 4, 3; doi:10.3390/recycling4010003 www.mdpi.com/journal/recycling Recycling 2019, 4, 3 2 of 6 These are the "waste products of a throwaway culture that treats plastic as a disposable material rather than a valuable resource to be harnessed" [9]. 2. Government and Business...
green high-density polyethylene mulch; microbial activity; nematode community; open field; soil chemical composition; topsoil; Vaccinium virgatum Aston cv. Centra Blue1. Introduction There are a multitude of uses for plastic products in agriculture (plasticulture), including containers, pots, packaging,...
Sci. 2016, 6, 84 14 of 15 and from the Formación del Profesorado Universitario (FPU) Program of Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (AP2010-2880). Author Contributions: All authors contributed to the work presented in this paper, and to the writing of the final manuscript....
The main method for this microorganism detection is the bacterial culture medium that is time-consuming and requires a laboratory with specialized personnel. Other sophisticated methods are still not fast enough because they require sending samples to a laboratory and with a high cost of analysis. ...