Biodegradation of crude oil in subsurface petroleum reservoirs is an important alteration process with major economic consequences1. Aerobic degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons at the surface is ...

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.

Eco-friendly technologies for plastic production and biodegradation? Date: December 11, 2023 Source: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Summary: A new article covering ...

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 ...

Biodegradation of plastics relies on the marine microbes. Since the first introduction of plastics into oceans in the 1950s, some marine microorganisms, namely bacteria and fungi, have shown a ...

Scientists have unveiled a new biodegradable plastic that vanishes in one of the harshest environments on Earth—the deep sea.

Biodegradation is Based on the Type of Synthetic Plastics In general, the biodegradation of synthetic plastics can be subdivided into two groups: plastics with a carbon-carbon backbone and ...

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 ...

Linda A. Figueroa, Johanna Miller, Helen E. Dawson, Biodegradation of Two Polyethoxylated Nonionic Surfactants in Sequencing Batch Reactors, Water Environment ...

TEM tracks the biodegradation of carbon nanotubes as incubation time increases. Length decrease is seen at week 8 with some globular material, while at week 12 mostly globular material is present.

More information: Do-Wook Kim et al, Biodegradation of oxidized low density polyethylene by Pelosinus fermentans lipase, Bioresource Technology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2024.130871 ...