We demonstrate that by replacing the plastic casing with paper encasements, we promote biodegradation of these devices while reducing its total weight, making their transport and packaging more compact and more environmentally friendly—hence qualifying this simple modification as green engineering.
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) utilize microorganisms as catalysts, which can promote biodegradation of organic matters and simultaneously produce an electrical current (Bond et al. 2002).
Thus, they concluded that biosurfactants alone are capable of promoting biodegradation process without using fertilizers.
The biosurfactant produced (5.35 mg/ml) was capable of promoting biodegradation to a large extent reported (Thavasi et al. 2011).
Higher contaminant removal efficiency of planted systems confirms the positive role of plants presence and their ability to promote biodegradation.
The presence of a growth substrate promotes cometabolic biodegradation of EOCs.
Scanning electron microscopy revealed that the starch granules were embedded in the continuous-phase PBSA and that starch promotes the biodegradation of PBSA.
Indeed, rhamnolipids promote the uptake and biodegradation of poorly soluble substrates, act as immune modulators and virulence factors, have antimicrobial activities, and are involved in surface motility and in bacterial biofilm development.
Mixed surfactants with a lower ratio of SDS promoted phenanthrene biodegradation while an increase in SDS in the mixed solutions had an adverse effect due to the preferential utilization of SDS by phenanthrene degraders.
Considering the possibility of the polyphenol unavailability for biodegradation and their inhibitory effects on bacteria, Dias-Machado et al. [ 20] suggested a pre-treatment (chemical oxidation) of CBW to promote the biodegradation.
