BIODEGRADATION OF SYNTHETIC PLASTICS BY FUNGAL SPECIES ISOLATED FROM SOIL

Excessive plastic use endangers both the environment and human life on Earth. Plastic accumulation on land and sea has sparked interest in degrading these polymers. To reduce the environmental impact of plastics, appropriate biodegradable methods must be used. Understanding the interaction of microbes and polymers is critical for overcoming the environmental problems associated with plastics. Many living organisms, primarily microorganisms, have developed strategies to survive and degrade plastics. The current review focusses on the various types of fungal species in our environment that are capable of degrading plastic, as well as the time it takes for fungal species to degrade plastic polymers. We have showed the degradation of thin plastic polymer with the isolated fungal species when we kept it for incubation at 27˚C for 44 days the degradation of plastic was found to be 4.85% with the biomass of 2.91g. KEYWORDS: Polymer, Biodegradable, Fungal species, Biomass.