Introduction: As extensively utilized synthetic polymers, polypropylene (PP) and polystyrene (PS) have raised significant environmental concerns due to their persistent accumulation in ecosystems.

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 ...

Modern agriculture uses a lot of plastic, especially in the form of mulch film that farmers use to cover field soils. This keeps the soils moist for crops, suppresses weeds and promotes crop growth.

Laboratory of Marine Ecotoxicology, V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia Unlike abiotic degradation, biodegradation is carried out with the ...

Department of Biobased Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, 1 Matsugasaki Hashikami-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan Faculty of Fiber ...

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, ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Biodegradable plastics are an alternative to reduce the problems caused by the great ...