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 …

Metagenomics is a new approach to study microorganisms obtained from a specific
environment by functional gene screening or sequencing analysis. Metagenomics studies …

Ester-containing organophosphate, carbamate, and pyrethroid (OCP) pesticides are used
worldwide to minimize the impact of pests and increase agricultural production. The toxicity …

Earth is flooded with plastics and the need for sustainable recycling strategies for polymers
has become increasingly urgent. Enzyme‐based hydrolysis of post‐consumer plastic is an …

Biodegradation of synthetic polymers, in particular polyethylene terephthalate (PET), is of
great importance, since environmental pollution with PET and other plastics has become a …

Industrialization, population burst, and changing lifestyles have resulted in the genesis of
non-degradable pollutants languishing the environment and human health. Biological …

Pyrethroids are broad-spectrum insecticides and presence of chiral carbon differentiates
among various forms of pyrethroids. Microbial approaches have emerged as a popular …

Plastic is exceedingly abundant in soils, but little is known about its ecological
consequences for soil microbiome functioning. Here we report the impacts of polyethylene …

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 …