Lack of degradability and the closing of landfill sites as well as growing water and land
pollution problems have led to concern about plastics. With the excessive use of plastics and …

Plastics have become an indispensable ingredient of human life. Their enormous use is a
matter of great environmental and economic concern, which has motivated the researchers …

The biodegradation and hydrolysis rates of an aliphatic aromatic copolyester were
measured in manure, food, and yard compost environments and in phosphate buffer …

The development of novel biodegradable polymers as a way to create sustainable materials
has required the development of methodologies to evaluate and understand their …

Poly (lactic acid)(PLA) is a sustainable, bio-based, and industrially compostable polymer
with a recalcitrant abiotic degradation phase, limiting its organic recovery to well-managed …

Environmentally degradable polymers and plastics (EDPs) are a group of polymeric
materials experiencing a rapid growth in number as well as in their applications and …

During the last few years, biodegradable polymers have been developed to replace
petrochemical polymers. Until now, research devoted to these polymers essentially focused …

Poly (lactic acid)(PLA), a well-known biodegradable and compostable polymer, was used in
this study as a model system to determine if the addition of nanoclays affects its …

Biodegradable materials are used to make compostable products that are expected to be
collected and recovered in specialist waste treatment plants. The appropriate targeting of …

BACKGROUND This paper assesses the feasibility of a single‐or multi‐stage process
entirely based on microbial cultures, with no or minimal non‐biological pretreatment and …