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- Title
A Review of Biodegradation of Synthetic Plastic and Foams.
- Authors
R. Gautam; A. S. Bassi; E. K. Yanful
- Abstract
Synthetic polymeric foams have pervaded every aspect of modern life.Although foams provide numerous benefits, they also cause a significantenvironmental litter problem because of their recalcitrant and xenobioticnature. Biodegradation may provide solution to the problem, but not enoughis known about the biodegradation process of synthetic plastic and plasticbasedfoams. This review has been written to provide an overview of thecurrent state of plastic foam biodegradation. Several biodegradation pathwaysof a few select synthetic polymers are also presented along with adiscussion on some of the physico-chemical factors that can influence thebiodegradation of plastic foams.
- Subjects
BIODEGRADATION; PLASTICS; CHEMICAL decomposition; PLASTIC foams
- Publication
Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology, 2007, Vol 141, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0273-2289
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12010-007-9212-6