Comparative study on biodegradability of polyethylene wax by bacteria and fungi
By F. Kawai, Masaji Watanabe, M. Shibata, S. Yokoyama, Y. Sudate, Hayashi Shizue. 2004
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Subfields: Pollution
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- Microbial Degradation of UV-Pretreated Low-Density Polyethylene Films by Novel Polyethylene-Degrading Bacteria Isolated from Plastic-Dump Soil (2018, unknown): “This may be attributed to the non-polar nature of lipids in the Gram negative bacteria outer membrane, which are thought to have more affinity toward polyethylene than the cell walls of Gram positive bacteria [43].”
- An overview of degradable and biodegradable polyolefins (2011, background): “There is an on-going debate regarding biodegradability of polyethylene and this has been mainly attributed to our present understanding on role of microorganisms,[53, 79, 80, 95] and limited information available on enzymatic biodegradation.”
- Polymer biodegradation: mechanisms and estimation techniques. (2008, methodology): “…with different molecular weight is the GPC, also called size exclusion chromatography (SEC) (Ratto et al., 1999; Hakkarainen et al., 2000; Ki and Park, 2001; Preeti et al., 2003; Kawai et al., 2004; Rizzarelli et al., 2004; Marten et al., 2005; Bikiaris et al., 2006; Marqués-Calvo et al., 2006).”
- Microplastics in the marine environment. (2011, background): “Embrittlement in beach weathering increases the specific surface area of the plastics by several orders of magnitude and this might be expected to increase its rate of biodegradation (Kawai et al., 2004).”
- Microbial degradation of low density polyethylene (2017, background): “During degradation process, LDPE provided carbon as the sole energy source for microbes [38].”