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Colonization of Non-biodegradable and Biodegradable Plastics by Marine Microorganisms. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2018 Plastics are ubiquitous in the oceans and constitute suitable matrices for bacterial attachment and growth. Understanding biofouling mechanisms is a key issue to assessing the ecological impacts and fate of plastics in marine environment. In this study, we investigated the different steps of plastic colonization of polyolefin-based plastics, on the ...
Dussud C +14 more
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Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts. [PDF]
ChemSusChem, 2021 AbstractPlastics are ubiquitous in our society. They are in our phones, clothes, bottles, and cars. Yet having improved our lives considerably, they now threaten our environment and our health. The associated carbon emissions and persistency of plastics challenge the fragile balance of many ecosystems.
Filiciotto L, Rothenberg G.
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Biodegradability of Plastics [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2009 Plastic is a broad name given to different polymers with high molecular weight, which can be degraded by various processes. However, considering their abundance in the environment and their specificity in attacking plastics, biodegradation of plastics by microorganisms and enzymes seems to be the most effective process.
Buenaventurada P. Calabia +3 more
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Biodegradation of Plastic by AspergillusSP [PDF]
International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, 2018 Plastics are light weighted, durable, corrosion resistant materials, strong, and inexpensive. Scientists have reported many adverse effects of the plastic in the environment and human health. Nowadays biodegradable plastics are considered as the environmental friendly. The plastic polymers as such at room temperatures are not considered as toxic.
Kannahi M, Thamizhmarai T
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Biodegradable Mineral Plastics
Small Methods, 2023 AbstractMineral plastics are a promising class of bio‐inspired materials that offer exceptional properties, like self‐heal ability, stretchability in the hydrogel state, and high hardness, toughness, transparency, and non‐flammability in the dry state along with reversible transformation into the hydrogel by addition of water. This enables easy reshape‐
Ilesha Avasthi +5 more
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Disposal of biodegradable plastics [PDF]
Proceedings First International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 1999 These days there are a number of technological developments in the field of biodegradable plastics both in industrial and in public research. Not only renewable but also petrochemical raw materials are used for synthesis of these biodegradable plastics because the ability to decompose does primarily not depend from the raw material but rather from the ...
W. Witek, H. Kuhnle, K. Kuhn
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Bioprospecting of gut microflora for plastic biodegradation [PDF]
Bioengineered, 2021 The problem of plastic prevalence and associated pollution has grasped the entire planet drastically, putting all fields of science on the stake seeking remedies to this global havoc. To address this crisis, with a single remediation strategy is often found to be baseless, thereby much interest has been evoked in the development of multidisciplinary ...
Sharrel Rebello +7 more
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Biodegradable plastics: A review
Advances in Polymer Technology, 1990 AbstractIn this paper, the approach of biodegradation to reduce the environmental impact of plastic wastes is reviewed. The mechanism of biodegradation and the processing and applications of these materials are also discussed in relation to the structural characters of their molecules.
Jan-Chan Huang +2 more
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Series C, 1994 Presently, we often hear the phrase "plastics friendly to the global environment", and that a biodegradable plastic is being developed. However, no case has been reported up to now of mechanical parts being made of such plastics. Therefore, focusing the characteristics of this plastic, we have carried out a study to utilize this plastic for gears.
Naohisa Tsukamoto +2 more
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Are biodegradable plastics an environmental rip off?
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 While the use of biodegradable polymers is recognized as a global strategy to minimize plastic pollution, the technical standards (TS) used to attest their biodegradability may not be in compliance with most environmental parameters observed aquatic ecosystems.
Viera, João S.C. +5 more
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