Microbial cell factories for bio-based biodegradable plastics production. [PDF]
iScience, 2022 Summary: The misuse of petroleum-based plastics has resulted in serious environmental pollution and resource wastage. Biodegradable plastics can be used as green substitutes for traditional plastics.
Han X, Liu J, Tian S, Tao F, Xu P.
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Engineering, Recyclable, and Biodegradable Plastics in the Automotive Industry: A Review. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2022 The automotive industry has used plastics almost since the beginning. The lightness, flexibility, and many qualities of plastics make them ideal for the automotive industry, reducing cars’ overall weight and fuel consumption. Engineering plastics in this
Vieyra H +3 more
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Replacing Traditional Plastics with Biodegradable Plastics: Impact on Carbon Emissions
Engineering, 2023 Guanyi Chen +13 more
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Cyanobacteria as a Promising Alternative for Sustainable Environment: Synthesis of Biofuel and Biodegradable Plastics. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2022 With the aim to alleviate the increasing plastic burden and carbon footprint on Earth, the role of certain microbes that are capable of capturing and sequestering excess carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by various anthropogenic means was studied ...
Agarwal P +7 more
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Municipal biowaste treatment plants contribute to the contamination of the environment with residues of biodegradable plastics with putative higher persistence potential. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Biodegradable plastics (BDP) are expected to mineralize easily, in particular under conditions of technical composting. However, the complexity of the sample matrix has largely prevented degradation studies under realistic conditions.
Steiner T +7 more
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End of Life of Biodegradable Plastics: Composting versus Re/Upcycling. [PDF]
ChemSusChem, 2021 Nowadays the issues related to the end of life of traditional plastics are very urgent due to the important pollution problems that plastics have caused.
Gioia C +7 more
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Bio-Based and Biodegradable Plastics: From Passive Barrier to Active Packaging Behavior. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2020 Iordanskii A.
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Interference of Biodegradable Plastics in the Polypropylene Recycling Process. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2018 Samper MD +4 more
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Applicability of Gravity Separation to Recycling Biodegradable Plastics
Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, 2023 Biodegradable plastics should be appropriately managed independently of general plastics during and after use. To establish an effective recycling process for biodegradable plastics, the present study investigates and evaluates the applicability of ...
Yuki Tsunazawa +5 more
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Bacterial Abundance, Diversity and Activity During Long-Term Colonization of Non-biodegradable and Biodegradable Plastics in Seawater. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2021 The microorganisms living on plastics called “plastisphere” have been classically described as very abundant, highly diverse, and very specific when compared to the surrounding environments, but their potential ability to biodegrade various plastic types
Odobel C +11 more
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