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Microbial Degradation of Microplastics
Summary
Microbial communities capable of colonizing and partially degrading plastic surfaces have been identified across global environments, raising the possibility of harnessing them for bioremediation of the plastic pollution crisis. However, current microbial degradation rates are far too slow to keep pace with plastic production, making engineered enhancement of these pathways a research priority.
The increasing plastics production and consumption, mainly in the form of disposable products, consists one of the major environmental threats transforming the Blue Planet into the Plastic One. The synthetic materials introduced to the biosphere ends in the global...