Enhancing microplastics biodegradation during composting using livestock manure biochar

Sun, Yue and Shaheen, Sabry M. and Ali, Esmat F. and Abdelrahman, Hamada and Sarkar, Binoy and Song, Hocheol and Rinklebe, Jörg and Ren, Xiuna and Zhang, Zengqiang and Wang, Quan (2022) Enhancing microplastics biodegradation during composting using livestock manure biochar. Environmental Pollution, 306: 119339. ISSN 0269-7491

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Abstract

Biodegradation of microplastics (MPs) in contaminated biowastes has received big scientific attention during the past few years. The aim here is to study the impacts of livestock manure biochar (LMBC) on the biodegradation of polyhydroxyalkanoate microplastics (PHA-MPs) during composting, which have not yet been verified. LMBC (10% wt/wt) and PHA-MPs (0.5% wt/wt) were added to a mixture of pristine cow manure and sawdust for composting, whereas a mixture without LMBC served as the control (CK). The maximum degradation rate of PHA-MPs (22–31%) was observed in the thermophilic composting stage in both mixtures. LMBC addition significantly (P

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Environmental Pollution

Additional Information:

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Environmental Pollution. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Environmental Pollution, 306, 119339, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119339

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Subjects:

?? biowastesbiodegradable plasticsmicrobial communitybiodegradationenvironmental remediationpollutionhealth, toxicology and mutagenesistoxicology ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre

ID Code:

169334

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ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

25 Apr 2022 11:30

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

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16 Aug 2024 23:54

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https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/169334