POORNIMA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

DECOMPOSITION OF WASTES
ORGANIC,PLASTIC BY BACTERIAS

Manu Mathur
Shreyash Jain
Prerit Kumar
Lalit Parashar
Sheshadri Mishra
INTRODUCTION
❑ The problem with plastics is they do not easily degrade. They may break
down, but only into smaller pieces. The smaller those pieces get, the more
places they can go.

❑ In the European Union nations, more than 250 × 106 tons of MSW are
created annualy, with a yearly development of 3%.

❑ In 2010, each and every individual on the planet created a normal of 250 kg
of MSW producing altogether 1.3 × 10^9 tons of MSW .

❑ After ten years, this sum practically multiplied levelling at 2.3 × 109 tons.
FROM WHERE THIS TYPE OF WASTE
GENERATED?
▶  More than 15,000 tonnes of plastic waste are generated in India
everyday, of which 6,000 tonnes remain uncollected and littered.
▶ Low-income countries have the highest proportion of organic
waste whereas high income countries has high inorganic waste
generation.
▶ The lack of awareness and absence of effective tools to collect
back the discarded plastic products including the wrapping
material has led to the indiscriminate littering and disposal of
plastic waste.
▶ Generated from houses.
▶ Medical/Clinical sources of waste.
▶ Generated from petroleum industries.
 IMPACT ON THE ENVIORMENT
❑ Plastic pollution can unfavorably affect lands,
waterways and oceans.

❑ Living organisms, particularly marine animals,

can also be affected through entanglement,
direct ingestion of plastic waste, or through
exposure to chemicals within plastics that
cause interruptions in biological functions.

❑ Humans are also affected by plastic pollution,

such as through the disruption of the thyroid
hormone axis or hormone levels. 

❑ Chlorinated plastic can release harmful

chemicals into the surrounding soil, which can
then seep into groundwater or other
surrounding water sources and also the
ecosystem.
ABOUT BACTERIA
❑ The new species,Ideonella sakaiensis, separates
the plastic by utilizing two compounds to
hydrolyze PET and an essential response
transitional.

❑ Ideonellasakaiensis 201-F6 fit for separating

plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or
polyester.

❑ This microorganism chomps on one sort of

plastic, Polyethylene terephthalate, or PET.

❑ This bacteria adheres to PET and secretes

PETase to target the material.

❑ Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, which could about

totally corrupt a thin film of PET following a
month and a half at a temperature of 86
degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius).
HOW IT CAN BE HELPFUL?
❑ A recent study conservatively estimated that 5.25 trillion plastic particles
weighing a total of 268,940 tons are currently floating in the world’s
oceans.

❑ Almost a third of all plastic packaging escapes collection systems and

ends up in nature or clogging up infrastructure, the World Economic
Forum (WEF) warned.

❑ Bacteria that breaks down bottles and bags can help to make our planet
clean.

❑ Discovery offers hope there may one day be a new way to clean up the
planet.
ADVANTAGES
▶ They need to work without the presence of oxygen.

▶ Convert plastic into bio gases methane ,carbon dioxide

biogenic carbon with small amounts of nitrogen and oxygen.

▶ we can harness the methane and turn in into power

▶ Various problems related to plastic can be greatly reduced.

▶ Danger to lives of animals and birds reduced.

▶ Places used as landfills to burry plastic waste decreases.

DISADVANTAGES
❑ Would be more expensive After creating in the lab.

❑ Could mutate and cause other problems.

❑ If we decided to release it on the earth's surface, it

could get out of control and eat all plastics.

❑ It would cost a lot of money to gather plastic waste to

bring it to the contained areas
REFERENCES
❑  "Terminology for biorelated polymers and applications (IUPAC
Recommendations 2012)“.

❑ Sims, G. K. and A.M. Cupples. 1999. Factors controlling degradation of pesticides

in soil. Pesticide Science 55:598–601.

❑ "Measuring Biodegradability", The University of Waikato, June 19, 2008.

❑  "Marine Debris Biodegradation Time Line".C-MORE, citing Mote Marine

Laboratory, 1993.

❑ Environment (SpringerLink) 15 (2): 125–150. doi:10.1007/s10924-007-0053-8
Retrieved 30 May 2015.