Biodegradation of crude oil in subsurface petroleum reservoirs has adversely affected the majority of the world’s oil, making recovery and refining of that oil more costly 1. The prevalent ...

A new eco-friendly plastic called LAHB has shown it can biodegrade even in the extreme environment of the deep ocean, unlike ...

Plastic is made from oil and natural gas, which started out as fossilized plant and animal material. But buried deep ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new eco-friendly plastic that decomposes in deep ocean conditions. In a deep-sea experiment, ...

Researchers submerged LAHB films at a depth of 855 m near Hatsushima Island to test real-world deep-sea biodegradation. After ...

Biodegradation environments can be controlled, including composting or anaerobic digestion, or natural and open, such as freshwater, soil, and marine environments.

Phase 4. Biodegradation In the final phase, the plastic fragments are degraded completely and metabolized by microorganisms. These fragments become substrates for metabolic pathways in the microbial ...

Here, we discuss how the microbial biodegradation of plastic waste will be fundamental in addressing the increasingly pressing issue of plastic pollution. Plastic pollution harms wildlife, the ...

Biodegradation is the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action. This term has close affinity to the sewage treatment, environmental remediation (bioremediation) and to plastic materials.

The rate of biochemical oxidation of CMC-4 maximized at about 80 percent in 1 wk, whereas acclimation of CMC-7 was not complete until the end of the 16th wk, when a biodegradation rate of about 60 ...

Polyolefins are the most-used non-biodegradable polymers in the US and the world, and are responsible for the largest amount of plastics in municipal solid waste (MSW), followed by PET. Pakistan and ...