Biodegradable plastics in the air and soil environment: Low degradation rate and high microplastics formation

Roadmap to Biodegradable Plastics—Current State and Research Needs

(2021) Koushik Ghosh et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

A Review of Microplastics in Table salt, Drinking Water, and Air: Direct Human Exposure

(2020) Qun Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Are biodegradable plastics a promising solution to solve the global plastic pollution?

(2020) Maocai Shen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

The “Plastisphere” of Biodegradable Plastics Is Characterized by Specific Microbial Taxa of Alpine and Arctic Soils

(2020) Joel Rüthi et al.   Frontiers in Environmental Science

Environmental Deterioration of Biodegradable, Oxo-biodegradable, Compostable, and Conventional Plastic Carrier Bags in the Sea, Soil, and Open-Air Over a 3-Year Period

(2019) Imogen E. Napper et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The influence of the dispersed phase on the morphology, mechanical and thermal properties of PLA/PE‐LD and PLA/PE‐HD polymer blends and their nanocomposites with TiO 2 and CaCO 3

(2019) Vedrana Lovinčić Milovanović et al.   POLYMER ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE

Widespread distribution of PET and PC microplastics in dust in urban China and their estimated human exposure

(2019) Chunguang Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Microbial biofilm formation and community structure on low-density polyethylene microparticles in lake water microcosms

(2019) Mengting Gong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Bacterial Candidates for Colonization and Degradation of Marine Plastic Debris

(2019) Line Roager et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bioplastics: Missing link in the era of Microplastics

(2019) V.C. Shruti et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Plastics of the future? The impact of biodegradable polymers on the environment and on society

(2018) Tobias Haider et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The impact of liposomal linolenic acid on gastrointestinal microbiota in mice

(2018) Xuan-xuan Li et al.   International Journal of Nanomedicine

Microplastics research—from sink to source

(2018) Chelsea M. Rochman   SCIENCE

Biodegradability standards for carrier bags and plastic films in aquatic environments: a critical review

(2018) Jesse P. Harrison et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Biodegradable Plastic Blends Create New Possibilities for End-of-Life Management of Plastics but They Are Not a Panacea for Plastic Pollution

(2018) Tanja Narancic et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Quantifying ecological risks of aquatic micro- and nanoplastic

(2018) Ellen Besseling et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Microplastics in soils: Analytical methods, pollution characteristics and ecological risks

(2018) Defu He et al.   TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Profiles of bacterial assemblages from microplastics of tropical coastal environments

(2018) Emily Curren et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Gut microbial profile is altered in primary biliary cholangitis and partially restored after UDCA therapy

(2017) Ruqi Tang et al.   GUT

Environment: A journey on plastic seas

(2017) Richard Thompson   NATURE

Biodegradation of bioplastics in natural environments

(2017) S. Mehdi Emadian et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Biodegradable and Petroleum-Based Microplastics Do Not Differ in Their Ingestion and Excretion but in Their Biological Effects in a Freshwater Invertebrate Gammarus fossarum

(2017) Sandrine Straub et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Spatial and seasonal variation in diversity and structure of microbial biofilms on marine plastics in Northern European waters

(2017) Sonja Oberbeckmann et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Biochemical and Structural Insights into Enzymatic Depolymerization of Polylactic Acid and Other Polyesters by Microbial Carboxylesterases

(2016) Mahbod Hajighasemi et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Designing Hydrophobicity of the PLA Polymer Blend Surfaces by ICP Etching

(2016) Domagoj Vrsaljko et al.   Plasma Processes and Polymers

Influences of poly(butylene adipate- co -terephthalate) on soil microbiota and plant growth

(2016) Fumihiro Muroi et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY

Direct Aqueous Self-Assembly of an Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymer toward Multistimuli-Responsive Fluorescent Anisotropic Micelles

(2015) Gang Wu et al.   ACS Nano

Selective degradation of biodegradable blends in simulated laboratory composting

(2015) Ramin Yousefzadeh Tabasi et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY

Bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates-eco-friendly next generation plastic: Production, biocompatibility, biodegradation, physical properties and applications

(2015) Muhammadi et al.   Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews

Contribution of soil esterase to biodegradation of aliphatic polyester agricultural mulch film in cultivated soils

(2015) Kimiko Yamamoto-Tamura et al.   AMB Express

Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons: catabolic genes, microbial communities, and applications

(2014) Sebastián Fuentes et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Analysis of a microbial community associated with polychlorinated biphenyl degradation in anaerobic batch reactors

(2014) B. C. Gomes et al.   BIODEGRADATION

Hydrolytic degradation behaviors of poly(p-dioxanone) in ambient environments

(2014) You Yuan et al.   CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE

Accelerating Reactive Compatibilization of PE/PLA Blends by an Interfacially Localized Catalyst

(2014) Christopher M. Thurber et al.   ACS Macro Letters

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Community genomic analyses constrain the distribution of metabolic traits across the Chloroflexi phylum and indicate roles in sediment carbon cycling

(2013) Laura A Hug et al.   Microbiome

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Modification of poly(lactic acid)/poly(propylene carbonate) blends through melt compounding with maleic anhydride

(2011) M. Yao et al.   Express Polymer Letters

Well-Defined Star-Shaped Rod−Coil Diblock Copolymers as a New Class of Unimolecular Micelles: Encapsulation of Guests and Thermoresponsive Phase Transition

(2010) Jeyoung Park et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Effect of Molecular Structure on Thermoresponsive Behaviors of Pyrrolidone-Based Water-Soluble Polymers

(2010) Jun Sun et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Biodegradation of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in tropical coastal waters and identification of PHA-degrading bacteria

(2010) T.G. Volova et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY

Purification and characterization of poly(L-lactic acid) depolymerase from Pseudomonas sp. strain DS04-T

(2010) Zhanyong Wang et al.   POLYMER ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE

Biological degradation of plastics: A comprehensive review

(2008) Aamer Ali Shah et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Assessment of aliphatic–aromatic copolyester biodegradable mulch films. Part II: Laboratory simulated conditions

(2008) Thitisilp Kijchavengkul et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Polymer biodegradation: Mechanisms and estimation techniques – A review

(2008) Nathalie Lucas et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Mechanistic implications of plastic degradation

(2007) Baljit Singh et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY