The global production of plastics has continuously been soaring over the last decades due
to their extensive use in our daily life and in industries. Although synthetic plastics offer great …

Plastics become rapidly colonized by microbes when released into marine environments.
This microbial community—the Plastisphere—has recently sparked a multitude of scientific …

A growing accumulation of plastic wastes has become a severe environmental and social
issue. It is urgent to develop innovative approaches for the disposal of plastic wastes. In …

Plastic waste management and recycling became a serious global issue as it affects living
beings from all the ecosystems. Researchers investigated biodegradation of polyethylene …

Microplastics are widely distributed and a major pollutant in our ecosystem. Microplastics
(MPs) are very small size plastic (< 5 mm) present in environment, which comes from …

The current measurement techniques described in the literature for the determination of the
carbonyl index (CI) for polyolefins such as polyethylene and polypropylene were compared …

Recalcitrant nature of plastic is a matter of huge concern, its increasing demand made it
more complicated to handle the issue of plastic waste, and hence new challenges came in …

The ability of microorganisms to use polyethylene as a carbon source has only been
recently established. This result has significance both from an environmental point of view …

Biodegradation is considered to take place throughout three stages: biodeterioration,
biofragmentation and assimilation, without neglect the participation of abiotic factors …

The use of engineering plastics, especially polyolefins has increased significantly in recent
decades largely due to their low cost, good mechanical properties and light weight …