provides brief information on microorganisms associated with the degradation of
plastics or its polymers.
Table 7.3 (continued)
Microorganisms
Source
Component of plastic
tested
References
Pseudomonas PL-01
and Bacillus PL-01
Indigenous
mangrove soil
bacteria
Plastic
Shovitri et al. (2016a,
2016b)
Ideonella sakaiensis
PET
Yoshida et al. (2016)
Pseudomonas sp. and
Bacillus sp.
PS
Mohan et al. (2016)
Bacillus cereus and
Sporosarcina
globispora
Mangrove
sediments in
Peninsular
Malaysia
Polypropylene
Helen et al. (2017)
Bacillus cereus and
Bacillus gottheilii
Mangrove
sediments in
Peninsular
Malaysia
Polyethylene (PE),
polyethylene
terephthalate (PET),
polypropylene, and
polystyrene (PS)
Auta et al. (2017)
Zalerion maritimum
PE
Paco et al. (2017)
Actinobacteria and
Firmicutes
Gut of
earthworm
Lumbricus
terrestris
Low density
polyethylene (LDPE)
Lwanga et al. (2018)
Pseudomonas spp.
Earthworm
LDPE-microplastic
Kyaw et al. (2012);
Lwanga et al. (2018)
Bacillus sp.
Compost
Plastic bags
Dang et al. (2018);
Thermophilic microbes
Plastic
Bharadwaj et al. (2012);
Bhardwaj et al. (2013);
Restrepo-Flórez et al.
(2014); Kale et al.
(2015); Skariyachan
et al. (2016);
Raziyafathima et al.
(2016); Pathak and
Navneet (2017); Ganesh
et al. (2017)
Bacillus sp.
Soil bacteria
Polyethylene
terephthalate synthetic
plastics
Rustinia et al. (2020)
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