Category: Biodegradation & Composting
Does Compostable Packaging Actually Break Down? Composting Consortium Reveals Groundbreaking Findings from Largest Field Test in North America
The role of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in enhancing the hydrolysis and thermal stability of PLA
Carbios Tech Speeds PLA Biodegradation
Mature compost promotes biodegradable plastic degradation and reduces greenhouse gas emission during food waste composting
New bioplastic definition in India
Fungal biodegradation of PBAT-PLA-TPS film
Promising environmental degradation of PISOX polyesters
How BPI’s petition to the USDA will support the growth of composting infrastructure
The US Composting Industry Has a Plastics Problem
Eco-Products Launches Veridian™ Line to Address Composter Contamination Challenges (FREE)
Identification of the bacterial community that degrades phenanthrene sorbed to polystyrene nanoplastics using DNA-based stable isotope probing
Application of MicroResp™ for quick and easy detection of plastic degradation by marine bacterial isolates
Comprehensive meta-analysis reveals the impact of non-biodegradable plastic pollution on methane production in anaerobic digestion
Common Enzyme Breaks Down PLA Fast
Northwestern University develops catalyst that degrades Nylon in minuites
How restaurants can benefit from composting?
University of Colorado Boulder says no to compostable plastic packaging
Insect microbes face off against the plastic pollution crisis
Making plastics biodegradable by UV-light (WUR)
Sustainable production and degradation of plastics using microbes (South Korea)
US Senator call for National Composting Strategy
Could bacteria and fungi solve plastic waste crisis? (Washington Post)
Feasibility of anaerobic co-digestion of biodegradable plastics with food waste, investigation of microbial diversity and digestate phytotoxicity
Timescale for biodegradation, Paper Bags, PLA (FREE)
Brunel University researchers develop enzymes that degrade plastic
Eco-Products Unveils New Program to Help Prevent Contamination in Compost Streams (FREE)
Brooklyn Goes Composting
Recology points to organics diversion in sustainability report
Bacteria, Enzymes & Microbes Biodegradation & Composting Reports & Studies Universities, Institutes & Labs
New deep-sea enzyme breaks down PET plastic
The Atlantic on Biological Recycling
CJ Blossom Park Achieves TÜV SÜD Lab Accreditation, Streamlining Biodegradability Testing (FREE)
Axel Barrett Biobased Biodegradable & Compostable Biodegradation & Composting Bioplastics Chronicles Fairy Tales
Some Bioplastics Companies are destroying the composting business (FREE)
Large-scale omics dataset of polymer degradation provides robust interpretation for microbial niche and succession on different plastisphere
BASF opens Biodegradation and Microplastics Center of Excellence in North America
What is plastics biodegradation by Aimplas
French Industrial Composting Test
Chipotle and the Composting Challenge
Bacteria as plastic eaters: No panacea for the waste problem
Significant advances in the degradation of plastics by induced selection in microcosm
Penn State University goes composting but refuses compostable plastics
Scientists Find Microbes That Can Break Down Plastic in the Cold
Australia & New Zealand Biodegradation & Composting Fungi, Mushroom & Mycelium Universities, Institutes & Labs