Plastics are everywhere in our modern way of living, and their production keeps increasing
every year, causing major environmental concerns. Nowadays, the end-of-life management …

The drastically increasing amount of plastic waste is causing an environmental crisis that
requires innovative technologies for recycling post-consumer plastics to achieve waste …

Global economies depend on the use of fossil‐fuel‐based polymers with 360–400 million
metric tons of synthetic polymers being produced per year. Unfortunately, an estimated 60 …

Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous pollutants persisting almost everywhere in the
environment. With the increase in anthropogenic activities, MP accumulation is increasing …

Increasing plastic production and the release of some plastic in to the environment highlight
the need for circular plastic economy. Microorganisms have a great potential to enable a …

Over the past thirty years, since the dawn of metagenomic studies, a completely new (micro)
universe was revealed, with the potential to have profound impacts on many aspects of the …

In the transition to the post-petroleum economy, there is a growing demand for novel
enzymes with high process performances to replace traditional chemistry with a more …

Environmental pollution caused by polyesters has become a major ecological safety
concern that needs to be managed urgently. One way to resolve this problem is giving the …

Metagenomics is a technology employed to study genetic material directly isolated from
environmental samples. Metagenomics thus reveals knowledge on microbial communities of …

Organic pollutants, including xenobiotics, are often persistent and toxic organic compounds
resulting from human activities and released in large amounts into terrestrial, fluvial and …