The combination of low concentrations of oxygen and nutrients in the lower layers of the beaches of Alaska's Prince William Sound is slowing the aerobic biodegradation of oil remaining from the 1989 ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The toxicity issues surrounding carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are highly relevant for two reasons: Firstly, as more and more products containing CNTs come to market, there is a chance ...

Modern agriculture uses a lot of plastic, especially in the form of mulch film that farmers use to cover field soils. This keeps the soils moist for crops, suppresses weeds and promotes crop growth.

To date, several different microorganisms have been found to participate in the biodegradation of various synthetic plastic materials following their isolation from the soil of plastic-dumping sites, ...

"Our member companies' additives are not at all related to the so-called 'oxo' additives," Lancelot told PlasticsToday. Lancelot noted that such additives, specifically identified as oxobiodegradables ...

GHENT, Belgium, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Normec OWS, a global leader in biodegradability and compostability testing, and B4Plastics, a Belgian biomaterials pioneer, announce the launch of a ...

Microorganisms maintain the biosphere by catalyzing biogeochemical processes, including biodegradation of organic chemical pollutants. Yet seldom have the responsible agents and their respective genes ...

Water Environment Research, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1998), pp. 146-154 (9 pages) The effects of varying pH on substrate removal, nitrate formation, and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal ...