Ecology of Products and Environmental Communication, Novamont S.p.A., Novara, Italy In order to understand what happened at the cube at molecular level in the first 16 days of biodegradation we must ...

Old trees are learning new tricks with the advent of composite materials. A "green composite" made from biodegradable ...

Could anyone live without plastic in the 21st century? Well, no, since a large part of the objects we see and use is made of that material (Cáceres, 2017). It has become so ubiquitous that it is hard ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Biodegradation is one of the most important processes influencing the fate of organic ...

Biodegradable polymers are one part of the solution to the global plastics sustainability crisis. Specifically, biodegradable polymers mitigate the challenges of released waste and microplastic ...

To date, several different microorganisms have been found to participate in the biodegradation of various synthetic plastic materials following their isolation from the soil of plastic-dumping sites, ...

To those unfamiliar with the topic, the terms bioremediation and biodegradation may sound as though they could be used interchangeably. However, the truth is that they refer to two distinct concepts, ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The assessment of environmental hazard indicators such as persistence, mobility, ...

Biodegradability of five commercial plastic bags labelled as “biodegradable” and two referent materials were studied by a soil test for three months. As a control experiment, for studying abiotic ...

Humans are consuming natural resources at a rate much higher than that at which nature can regenerate or replenished. We all know that we depend on the nature to meet our energy need. With advancement ...