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Environmental Sustainability with Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) as Plastic Alternatives

Environmental contamination remediation and management 2022
Lucas Vinicius Santini Ceneviva, Takeharu Tsuge

Summary

Researchers reviewed polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) — biodegradable bioplastics — as sustainable alternatives to conventional plastics, arguing that replacing petroleum-based plastics could reduce microplastic generation in ecosystems and eliminate the chemical additives that leach from plastic particles into food and water.

The plastic pollution in the environment has reached alarming levels. Plastics can also negatively affect living beings through the food web physically and chemically by its breakage to microplastics and release of its additives in the environment. The main culprits...

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