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Biodegradation of Industrial Materials

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Contaminations resulting from various human activities such as the petroleum industry, petrochemical sector, agriculture sector, and nuclear technology have become major problems nowadays. Also, the industrial wastes produced for industrial purposes attain significant environmental attention. All of these wastes are primarily organic or inorganic components of nature. These wastes are very acidic, a substantial threat to health issues and ecological balance. Due to the lack of facilities for proper biodegradation, the toxic wastes are randomly exposed to the natural environment. These materials are accumulated within the frame of global sustainability and ecological balance maintenance to enhance biodegradability. Three stages usually conduct biodegradation: biodeterioration, fragmentation, and assimilation, with the effective presence of abiotic factors. This chapter presents a general overview of the biodegradation of industrial materials such as plastics, nanocomposite materials, azo textile dye, etc., and their utility based on advantages and disadvantages. It includes an outline of the necessity of biodegradation associated with its impact on the environment and several processes widely used in biodegradation systems. In addition, the requirements of materials to be biodegradable and the factors that affect the biodegradation system most will be discussed. For all sorts of experiments, potentiality matters most, and an overview related to the potentiality of biodegradable industrial materials will be given. Furthermore, the prospects of biodegradable materials will be outlined in this chapter following its current scenario.

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Abbreviations

Eh:

Electron density

GHG:

Greenhouse gas

LC :

Lignocellulosic fibers

PET:

Polyethylene terephthalate

PHA:

Polyhydroxyalkanoates

WRF:

White-rot fungi

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Haque, M.J., Rahman, M.S. (2023). Biodegradation of Industrial Materials. In: Ali, G.A.M., Makhlouf, A.S.H. (eds) Handbook of Biodegradable Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09710-2_52

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