Biodegradation and Mineralization of Polystyrene by Plastic-Eating Mealworms: Part 2. Role of Gut Microorganisms.

By Yu Yang, Jun Yang, Wei-Min Wu, Jiao Zhao, Y. Song, Longcheng Gao, Ruifu Yang, Lei Jiang. Environmental Science and Technology, 2015

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Food Wastes as a Potential new Source for Edible Insect Mass Production for Food and Feed: A review (2019, background): “Other applications of edible insects include biodegradation of polystyrene in the environment using Tenebrio molitor mealworm [33,34], use of black soldier for municipal organic waste management [35], and the use of non-mammalian models like Galleria mellonella larvae, also known as waxworm, to mode”
Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities. (2017, background): “There is 142 evidence that biodegradation of polymers by some organisms can occur, for example bacteria, fungi 143 and mealworms (due to gut bacteria) (Gu, 2003; Yang et al., 2015a, b).”
Biological Degradation of Polymers in the Environment (2019, methodology): “DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.85124 where Cpolymer and newly formed oligomers are converted into Cbiomass but Cbiomass converts to CO2 under a different kinetics scheme.”
Microplastic-Associated Biofilms: A Comparison of Freshwater and Marine Environments (2018, background): “Although this topic has not been investigated in freshwater or marine environments, the gut bacteria of mealworms (larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus) can degrade polystyrene [82], and certain aquatic organisms could harbor microorganisms capable of modifying the surface properties of plastics and/”
Microbial enzymes for the recycling of recalcitrant petroleum‐based plastics: how far are we? (2017, background): “Recently, the utilization of microbial communities or mixed cultures with defined microbial strains has shown an improved performance in the degradation of PS and PE compared with the use of single microorganisms (Roy et al., 2008; Esmaeili et al., 2013; Yang et al., 2015; Mukherjee et al., 2016).”