BREAKING DOWN OF POLYETHYLENE BY PSEUDOMONAS SPECIES [ READ ]
Preeti Agrawal, Rukendra Kumar singh
Exhausted studies on the degradation of polyethylene has been carried out in order to overcome the environmental problems associated with synthetic plastic waste. Recent work has include the isolation of most efficient microorganism using different soil samples taken from three waste disposal sites such as industrial plastic waste dump area, leather industry waste and domestic waste dump area. In this study, various microorganism were isolated from the soil samples, grown in an inorganic media (M9 media). There are some microorganisms that have the capacity to degrade plastic waste up to 51.5%. This result is achieved due to addition of starch as additive in M9 media. This study reveals that pseudomonas sp. posses greater potential to degrade polyethylene.
Preeti Agrawal, Rukendra Kumar singh
Exhausted studies on the degradation of polyethylene has been carried out in order to overcome the environmental problems associated with synthetic plastic waste. Recent work has include the isolation of most efficient microorganism using different soil samples taken from three waste disposal sites such as industrial plastic waste dump area, leather industry waste and domestic waste dump area. In this study, various microorganism were isolated from the soil samples, grown in an inorganic media (M9 media). There are some microorganisms that have the capacity to degrade plastic waste up to 51.5%. This result is achieved due to addition of starch as additive in M9 media. This study reveals that pseudomonas sp. posses greater potential to degrade polyethylene.
