Sentence examples for plastic degradation from inspiring English sources

Laura Foster, pollution programme manager at MCS, said: "Plastic is extremely resistant to biodegradation, and degrades into increasingly smaller particles – estimates for plastic degradation at sea range from hundreds to thousands of years.

I study plastic degradation in the lab of Professor Craig Criddle.

To understand the evolutionary origin of MHETase is therefore highly relevant for enzymatic plastic degradation in general10,18.

More research is needed, however, to understand conditions favorable to plastic degradation and the enzymes that break down polymers.

The discovery could aid in better understanding of the conditions and enzymes that contribute to plastic degradation.

Webb, H. K., Arnott, J., Crawford, R. J. & Ivanova, E. P. Plastic Degradation and Its Environmental Implications with Special Reference to Poly ethylene terephthalate).

The recent uses of microelectronics as sensors or control devices at high-temperature ambient increase the rate of visco-plastic degradation of solder joints of their components.

Hierarchical (Pt/h-HZSM-5) and delaminated (Pt/ITQ-6) catalysts were prepared as alternative materials to reduce mass-transfer limitations in waste plastics degradation, by increasing external surface area.

This may be exploited in order to improve catalysis and to expand substrate specificity and thus significantly advance enzymatic plastic polymer degradation.

The area in which he gained the most recognition both in the US, and internationally was in the development of compounds that help preserve plastics against degradation.

We have confirmed that PaE was a different protein from lipase A and B. Furthermore, we have observed that all isolated Pseudozyma spp. strains, which showed biodegradable plastic film degradation ability, secreted immunologically identical biodegradable plastic-degrading enzyme; but there may be the structural differences in enzymes from Cryptococcus spp. between PaE (Figure 6).