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Classification and microbes involved in Plastic biodegradation: A review
Summary
This review classifies types of plastics and catalogues the bacteria, fungi, and other microbes involved in plastic biodegradation, examining enzymatic mechanisms and conditions that facilitate microbial breakdown of synthetic polymers. The authors argue that microbial biodegradation offers a more sustainable and less hazardous alternative to physical and chemical disposal methods such as landfill and incineration.
Plastic is composed of synthetic and semi-synthetic compounds with immense applications. While Plastics are dangerous and harm the environment, their practice is causing their ingesting to grow. Outdated methods of plastic degradation through physical and chemical means like landfill, incineration, and recycling are expensive and perilous and release hazardous chemical substances to the environment. Thus, proper approaches are required to overcome this trick. Biodegradation through microbes on the other hand offers a hopeful solution. Presently, numerous categories of bacteria and other microbial species degrade plastic materials. Several steps are required in plastic biodegradation like biodeterioration, depolymerization, assimilation and mineralization. These processes will result in secretion of enzymes that degrade plastics and converts it into gasses and biomass along other biproducts.
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