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Environmental biodegradability of recombinant structural protein [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 AbstractNext generation polymers needs to be produced from renewable sources and to be converted into inorganic compounds in the natural environment at the end of life. Recombinant structural protein is a promising alternative to conventional engineering plastics due to its good thermal and mechanical properties, its production from biomass, and its ...
Ken-ichi Kasuya +6 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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Environmentally Friendly and Biodegradable Components for Biosensors
IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, 2022 The pandemic of coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) attracts dramatic attention worldwide that biosensing technology plays an essential role in screening, tracing, and diagnostics of the diseases in society. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the significant features of biosensor development, called ASSURED: affordable, sensitive, specific,
Briliant Adhi Prabowo +1 more
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Properties, environmental fate and biodegradation of carbazole [PDF]
3 Biotech, 2017 Abstract The last two decades had witnessed extensive investigation on bacterial degradation of carbazole, an N-heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. Specifically, previous studies have reported the primary importance of angular dioxygenation, a novel type of oxygenation reaction, which facilitates mineralization of carbazole to intermediates of
Lateef B. Salam +2 more
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Analysis of the Possibility of Environmental Pollution by Composted Biodegradable and Oxo-Biodegradable Plastics [PDF]
Geosciences, 2019 Composting the municipal organic fraction of waste results in a valuable product in the form of compost, which could be used instead of other forms of fertilisation. The organic waste stream may contain oxo-biodegradable and biodegradable plastics used for waste collection.
Florentyna Markowicz +1 more
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Environmental Impact of Flame Retardants (Persistence and Biodegradability) [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2009 Flame-retardants (FR) are a group of anthropogenic environmental contaminants used at relatively high concentrations in many applications. Currently, the largest market group of FRs is the brominated flame retardants (BFRs). Many of the BFRs are considered toxic, persistent and bioaccumulative.
Osnat Segev +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2012 Environmentally Degradable Parameter ((Ed)K) is of importance in the describing of biodegradability of environmentally biodegradable polymers (BDPs). In this study, a concept (Ed)K was introduced. A test procedure of using the ISO 14852 method and detecting the evolved carbon dioxide as an analytical parameter was developed, and the calculated (Ed)K ...
Qiang Li +8 more
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Environmentally-friendly biodegradable packaging products [PDF]
Microbiology Australia, 2008 The rise of industrialisation and widespread use of petrochemicals brought with it many useful products. One of these products was plastic, a highly polymerised hydrocarbon mainly used for its physical strength and effective microbial barrier properties.
Baum, Dale M. +2 more
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Special Issue “Biodegradation and Environmental Microbiomes”: Editorial
Microorganisms, 2023 The Earth is unique, and we as human beings rely on its air, water, and land [...]
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Biodegradability and the estimation of environmental concentration
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 1979 Abstract In order to assess the environmental acceptability of a chemical we need to estimate both the lowest concentration at which it will cause adverse effects and the highest concentrations which are likely to be present in the environment.
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