This review considers the recent investigations in scope of biodegradability synthetic polymers, spanning polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and their corresponding composites, with a focus on influence oxo-additives (mostly transition metal salts). The types mechanisms oxidation acceleration are discussed. Furthermore, both physicochemical biological stages degradation is evaluated (labora...

Biodegradability of five commercial plastic bags labelled as “biodegradable” and two referent materials were studied by a soil test for three months. As control experiment, studying abiotic degradation under the climatic impact (ultraviolet, temperature, moisture) in weatherometer was performed. The changes bag samples after tests detected optical microscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectros...

Based on recent scientific-technical developments referring to the transformation and biodegradation mechanisms of plastic compounds, progress has been made both in conceptualization relevant definitions development technical standards that allow determining, a more precise reproducible way, ratio biodegradability determined material. From these advances, they have developed, furthermore, so-ca...

Biodegradability , are known as biological degradation degree of biodegradable organic pollutants by microorganisms. Organic biodegradability can be divided into aerobic biodegradability and anaerobic biodegradability. At present, evaluation methods for biological degradation degree include aerobic biodegradability method of relative oxygen consumption or rate method, integrated test evaluation...

indandione 1 was brominated to yield 2-bromoindandione 2 which on further reacted with substituted thiocarbamides, carbamides, 2-aminothiophenols, 2-aminophenol and triazoles to furnished 3-substituted aniline-2-thia-4-aza-6,7-benzo-8-oxo-bicyclo [3.3.0]-1(5),3-octadiene 3, 3-substituted aniline-2-oxa-4-aza-6,7-benzo-8-oxo-bicyclo [3.3.0]-1(5),3-octadiene 4, 2-thia-5-aza-9-oxo-3,4-(3’-substitut...

Synthetic nanoparticles have already been detected in the aquatic environment. Therefore, knowledge on their biodegradability is of utmost importance for risk assessment but such information is currently not available. Therefore, the biodegradability of fullerenes, single, double, multi-walled as well as COOH functionalized carbon nanotubes and cellulose and starch nanocrystals in aqueous envir...

it has been proven that polyolefins specially low density polyethylene (ldpe), are resistant against degradation and microorganism attacks; thus, one of the most important properties of industrial plastics, is their environmental biodegradability. since plastics are being widely used in agriculture, horticulture and packaging, meeting this requirement becomes increasingly dificult (specially in...

The ability to predict the biodegradability of a given compound is crucial in understanding the fate of this compound in the environment, which can have tremendous public health implications. Traditionally, the biodegradability prediction relies on the regression analysis utilizing quantitative structural relationships. This paper presents a novel prediction method utilizing neural networks and...