Microbial degradation of plastic in aqueous solutions demonstrated by CO2 evolution and quantification.
R. S. Rose, K. H. Richardson, E. J. Latvanen, C. A. Hanson, M. Resmini, I. A. Sanders
The paper demonstrates microbial degradation of plastics by measuring CO2 evolution from bacterial respiration using low-density polyethylene and other plastics.
bioRxiv · Jul 31, 2019Microbiology