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BIODEGRADATION OF TRIETHANOLAMINE

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1996
Abstract Triethanolamine production in the United States exceeds 100,000 metric tons per year. Given this magnitude of production and widespread distribution to consumer product, specialty chemical, and agricultural chemical markets, an understanding of the environmental fate and lifetime of this chemical is warranted.
Robert J. West, Stanley J. Gonsior
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Biodegradation of Plastics for Sustainable Environment.

Bioresource Technology, 2022
Plastics are a kind of utility product that has become part and parcel of one's life. Their continuous usage, accumulation, and contamination of soil and water pose a severe threat to the biotic and abiotic components of the environment.
Jyoti Singh Jadaun, S. Bansal, A. Sonthalia, A. Rai, Sudhir P. Singh   +4 more
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Biodegradation of oxo‐biodegradable polyethylene

Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2008
AbstractBiodegradation of polyethylene and oxo‐biodegradable polyethylene films was studied in this work. Abiotic oxidation, which is the first stage of oxo‐biodegradation, was carried out for a period corresponding to 4 years of thermo‐oxidation at composting temperatures. The oxidation was followed by biodegradation, which was achieved by inoculating
M. M. Reddy, M. Deighton, Rahul K. Gupta, S. N. Bhattacharya, R. Parthasarathy   +4 more
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Biodegradation of PET: Current Status and Application Aspects

ACS Catalysis, 2019
Most petroleum-derived plastics, as exemplified by poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), are chemically inactive and highly resistant to microbial attack.
I. Taniguchi, S. Yoshida, K. Hiraga, K. Miyamoto, Y. Kimura, K. Oda   +5 more
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A comprehensive review on recent advancements in biodegradation and sustainable management of biopolymers.

Environmental Pollution, 2022
Recent years have seen upsurge in plastic manufacturing and its utilization in various fields, such as, packaging, household goods, medical applications, and beauty products.
S. K. Awasthi, Manish Kumar, Vinay Kumar, S. Sarsaiya, P. Anerao, P. Ghosh, Lal Singh, Hong Liu, Zengqiang Zhang, M. Awasthi   +9 more
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Biodegradability

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, 1974
Abstract The significance of biodegradability in the treatment and discharge of waste waters to natural bodies of water is discussed. Various methods of assessing biodegradability are described and their limitations illustrated by a consideration of the characteristics of bacterial growth and metabolism, including the phenomenon of co-
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Biodegradation of phenolic pollutants and bioaugmentation strategies: A review of current knowledge and future perspectives.

Journal of Hazardous Materials
The widespread use of phenolic compounds renders their occurrence in various environmental matrices, posing ecological risks especially the endocrine disruption effects.
Jiacheng Wang, Lidan Zhang, Yujie He, Rong Ji   +3 more
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Critical evaluation of biodegradation studies on synthetic plastics through a systematic literature review.

Science of the Total Environment, 2021
Increasing amounts of plastic waste in the environment and their fragmentation into smaller particles known as microplastics (particles,
Tjaša Matjašič, T. Simčič, Neja Medvešček, O. Bajt, T. Dreo, N. Mori   +5 more
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Impacts of biochars on bacterial community shifts and biodegradation of antibiotics in an agricultural soil during short-term incubation.

Science of the Total Environment, 2021
This study investigated the effects of applying different biochars to soil on shifts in the bacterial community, the biodegradation of antibiotics, and their relationships.
Guixiang Zhang, Zhihua Zhao, Xin-An Yin, Yuen Zhu   +3 more
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Enhanced Bioavailability and Microbial Biodegradation of Polystyrene in an Enrichment Derived from the Gut Microbiome of Tenebrio molitor (Mealworm Larvae).

Environmental Science and Technology, 2021
As the global threat of plastic pollution has grown in scale and urgency, so have efforts to find sustainable and efficient solutions. Research conducted over the past few years has identified gut environments within insect larvae, including Tenebrio ...
A. M. Brandon, Alexa Garcia, Nikita A. Khlystov, Wei-Min Wu, C. Criddle   +4 more
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