Classification and microbes involved in Plastic biodegradation: A review

Misbah Ullah *, Ubaid ur Rehman, Abbas Khan, Muhammad Bin Riaz, Rizwan Khan, Aiman and Nimra Khan

Centre of Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan.
 
Review
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2024, 13(02), 1088–1096.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2024.13.2.2196
Publication history: 
Received on 04 October 2024; revised on 15 November 2024; accepted on 17 November 2024
 
Abstract: 
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 Outdated methods of plastic degradation through physical and chemical means like landfill, incineration, and recycling are expensive and perilous and release hazardous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.
 
Keywords: 
Plastics; Biodegradation; microplastics; Microbes; Types
 
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