Table 7.3 Soil microflora associated with partial or complete degradation of plastic
Microorganisms
Source
Component of plastic
tested
References
Arthrobacter sp., E.
coli, Micrococcus sp.,
and Pseudomonas sp.
Soil bacteria
Polystyrene film
Lyklema et al. (1989)
Streptomyces strains,
Mucor rouxii, and
Aspergillus flavus
Soil
microflora
Polyethylene bags
El-Shafei et al. (1998)
Vibrio and
Pseudomonas sp.
Marine
bacteria
Polypropylene
Flemming (1998)
Aspergillus sp. and
Streptomyces strains
Soil
microflora
Poly
(3-hydroxybutyrateco-valerate)
Tansengco and Tokiwa
(1998)
White rot fungi
Plant
PVC
Kirbaş et al. (1999)
White rot fungi
Plant
PVC
Kirbaş et al. (1999)
Penicillium
simplicissimum
Soil
Polyethylene
Yamada-Onodera et al.
(2001)
Rhizopus arrhizus
Soil
Polypropylene
Ramis et al. (2004)
Brevibacillus
borstelensis and
Rhodococcus ruber
Polyethylene
Hadad et al. (2005)
Pseudomonas sp.,
Vibrio sp., and
Aspergillus niger
Marine
bacteria
Polypropylene
Arutchelvi et al. (2008)
Actinobacteria spp.
Low molecular weight
PE oligomers
Ghosh et al. (2013a,
2013b)
Kocuria palustris,
Bacillus pumilus, and
Bacillus subtilis
Marine
bacteria
PE
Harshvardhan and Jha
(2013)
Bacillus cereus
PE
Sowmya et al. (2014)
Gut microflora
Gut of the
larvae Plodia
interpunctella
(meal moth)
Polyethylene
Yang et al. (2014)
Pseudomonas stutzeri,
Alcaligenes faecalis,
Pseudomonas putida,
Streptomyces sp.,
Brevibacillus
borstelensis, and
Staphylococcus sp.
Polymers
Ghosh et al. (2013a, b);
Caruso (2015)
Pseudomonas
alcaligenes and
Desulfotomaculum
nigrificans
Plastic
contaminated
soil
Polyethylene bag
Begum et al. (2015)
Bacillus subtilis
Polyethylene films of
thickness 18 μ
Vimala and Mathew
(2016)
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