The research status and mechanisms of insect and intestinal microorganism-based plastic degradation are reviewed herein. Based on the current research status and considering the influence of multiple factors in the degradation process, two main approaches for investi...
Micrographs showing the PET surface (a) after incubation in industrial waste water for 60 days, and (b) after removal of the biofouling showing local degradation.© Tourova, Pleiades Publishing Bacteria that can degrade the common plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) have been discovered in in...
As an ecofriendly alternative for existing industrial recycling processes for plastic waste as well as for bioremediation of environments polluted with plastic particles, an efficient biological degradation of plastics via microorganisms/enzymes is highly desirable. However, there are only very few microbial...
Because cellulose has organic carbon, the cellulose test showed high degradation. The EM had been able to degrade the cellulose because the EM consisted of aerobic and anaerobic microbes that had contributed to the degradation organic compounds. The result of the observations indicated tha...
We’ve discovered microorganisms that naturally feed off the chemicals and compounds inplasticwaste by digesting and breaking them down into harmless organic matter. And now we're enhancing these microorganisms and enzymes associated with the degradation. Distributing these enhanced microorganisms and enzyme...
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 metabolis
Several sizes and shapes of plastic are found in the environment, some produced by physical and biological degradation of larger plastics, including fibers, fragments, films, pellets (i.e., nurdles), microbeads, polystyrene foam, and whole items (Al-Thawadi, 2020; Schwarz et al., 2019). ...
Studying the degradation process, which is known to be extremely slow, using these “tagged” plastics enables us to monitor the production of degradation products such as CO2 with very sensitive detection methods. This allows us to measure plastic degradation in less than a week. In nature, ...
Ribitsch said, "In nature, complex molecules such as lignin, a component of wood, are degraded by enzyme cascades, a collaboration of several microorganisms. We assume that it will also take an interplay of several enzymes isolated from the bovine rumen to ensure an overall degradation of ...
Biodegradable polymers can break down into smaller molecules, such as CO2, CH4and H2O, by microorganisms under aerobic or anaerobic conditions. Although not always required, abiotic chemical reactions like photodegradation, oxidation and hydrolysis can also aid the degradation process9. There are many ...