It takes 200 years for polyester clothing to break down meaning ... when we wear and launder plastic clothing to their lack of biodegradability at end of life. It takes between 20 and 200 years ...

Journal articles report findings of macro-organisms like meal worms and wax moth as solutions for plastic waste management. Furthermore, biodegradability in closed loop managed disposal systems like ...

Researchers have succeeded in developing a microbial strain that efficiently produces pseudoaromatic polyester monomer to replace polyethylene terephthalate (PET) using systems metabolic engineering.