Natural Ways to Decompose Plastics
Vijayshree1, Seema Chawla2
1Vijayshree, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University, Murthal, Sonipat (Haryana), India.
2Seema Chawla, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University, Murthal, Sonipat (Haryana), India.
Manuscript received on 17 October 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 25 October 2019 | Manuscript Published on 02 November 2019 | PP: 2926-2929 | Volume-8 Issue-2S11 September 2019 | Retrieval Number: B13710982S1119/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.B1371.0982S1119
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Abstract: Science and technology has given various good things and their applications to us. But along with their benefit some goods are harmful too for both human being and our environment. Plastic is one of them, which has many commercial as well as daily uses. There are many advantages of it but one main drawback is that it’s not degradable by nature. It can neither be degraded naturally nor synthetically. If we even try to degrade it chemically or physically, it would produce many harmful by products which are toxic in nature and pollute the environment as well. So, the only safe way is biodegradation. In recent discoveries many microbes are found to degrade different types of plastics biologically. We have tried for two sources of university premises the polluted soil of dumping site and the sewage effluent. And during the study we isolated two bacterial strains, which have removed some percentage of PET plastic in a bacterial broth media in its initial 24 hrs. The study is going on further. The aim of this paper is to spread awareness and create innovation to all young minds to find new ways to overcome from plastic pollution crisis of the mother Earth.
Keywords: Biodegradation, Environmental Pollution, Microbial Strains, Plastics.
Scope of the Article: Environmental Engineering