Investigation on the Use of Microorganisms in the Microbiological Breakdown of Synthetic Polymers

Abstract Although a wide spectrum of consumers demand the exceptional performance qualities that polymers offer to modern society, managing the fate of polymers in the environment has grown to be a major management challenge. For product engineers looking for features with a long lifetime, polymer applications provide appealing molecular architectures. These qualities play a significant role in how long plastics or polymers can last in the environment. Recent reports of microbial breakdown of polymeric materials give new emerging technological alternatives to change the significant pollution issue incurred via use of polymers/plastics. There is a substantial body of literature from which prospective biological technology future development paths might be inferred. To supply the database from which a new technique was built, each report of microbial driven polymer degradation must be characterized in great detail. The kinetics of the degradation process must be addressed as part of the development, and novel methods to accelerate the rate of deterioration must be discovered. The quest to design new technologies involves an implicit awareness of how biotic and abiotic deterioration interact.