Classification and microbes involved in Plastic biodegradation: A review

Plastic is composed of synthetic and semi-synthetic compounds with immense applications. While Plastics are dangerous and harm the environment, their practice is causing their ingesting to grow. Outdated methods of plastic degradation through physical and chemical means like landfill, incineration, and recycling are expensive and perilous and release hazardous chemical substances to the environment. Thus, proper approaches are required to overcome this trick. Biodegradation through microbes on the other hand offers a hopeful solution. Presently, numerous categories of bacteria and other microbial species degrade plastic materials. Several steps are required in plastic biodegradation like biodeterioration, depolymerization, assimilation and mineralization. These processes will result in secretion of enzymes that degrade plastics and converts it into gasses and biomass along other biproducts.