Table 2.

Plastic degrading microbes

Type of polymer	Type of Microbe	Genus	Remarks	Reference
Polyurethane	Fungi	Aspergillus, Paecelomyces, Penicillium, Alternaria, and fusariumtrichoderma DIA-T sp.	Most of the strains showed more urease and protease activity	[49]
Polyethylene	Bacteria	Brevibacillus, Pseudomonas, and Rhodococcus	Pseudomonas showed biodegradability of 40.5%	[50]
Polythene and plastic	Bacteria	S. aureus, Micrococcus, S. pyogenes, P. aeruginosa and B. subtilis	Experiment was done in fadama soil (fs) amended with poultry droppings, cow dung and inorganic fertilizer (npk)	[51]
”	Fungus	Aspergillus niger, A. flavus, A. fumigates, Mucor, Penicillium and Fusarium	”	[51]
Polyurethane	Fungus	Pestalotiopsis	Endophytes are isolated from wooden plants. enzyme belonging to serine hydrolase family is present	[52]
Low density polyethylene	Fungus	Aspergillus and Fusarium sp.	Depolymerization of polymers by the microbial enzymes.	[53]
Low density polyethylene (LDPE)	Fungus	Aspergillus versicolor and Aspergillus sp.	From marine water	[54]
LDPE	Bacteria	Microbacterium sp. Pseudomonas putida strain, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, P. putida, P. aeruginosa	Combination of potential bacterial strains accelerates degradation	[55]
Polyethylene	Bacteria	Pseudomonas sp.	Pseudomonas from sewage sludge dump showed high degradation potential (46.1%)	[56]
Disposable polyethylene	Bacteria Fungus	Streptomyces sp.,Aspergillus flavus and Mucor rouxii 1835	Fungus showed more degradation ability	[57]
Low density polyethylene	Fungus Bacteria	Aspergillus niger and A. flavus Pseudomonas sp,Streptomyces sp	Streptomyces sp showed high degradation capacity (46.7%)	[89]
Polythene	Bacteria Fungus	Bacillus subtilis,, Staphylococcus aureus.,Streptococcus lactis, Proteus vulgaris, Micrococcus luteus Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus nidulance, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus glaucus, Penicillum species, Pseudomonas sp.		[58]
Polyethylene	Bacteria	Rhodococcus ruber	Rhodococcus ruber a biofilm forming bacteria as it is highly hydrophobic(0.86%/week)	[59]
Thermo-oxidized (80°C, 15 days) low‐density polyethylene (TO‐LDPE)	Fungus	Aspergillus niger and Penicillium pinophilum	Thermo‐oxidized) low‐density polyethylene (TO‐LDPE) showed high degradation by the fungus when treated with ethanol as co substrate	[60]
High density polyethylene	Fungus	Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus oryzae	Exposure to uv radiation before inoculation of fungi increased the rate of degradation	[61]
Polyethylene	Bacteria Fungus	Pseudomonas sp.,Bacillus sp.,Staphylococcus sp., and Streptomyces sp. Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus flavus		[62]
Low density polyethene and polypropylene	Bacteria	Pseudomonas stutzeri		[63]
High-density polyethylene (HDPE)	Fungus	Arthrobacter sp. and Pseudomonas sp.	Soil from Marine habitat	[64]
Branched low-density (0Æ92 g cm)3) polyethylene (LDPE)	Bacteria	Brevibacillus borstelensis	Carbon (mannitol free medium)deprivation enhances the degradation process	[79]
Polyethylene	Bacteria	Bacillus cereus strain ma-su	Pretreatment with UV and thermal oxidation enhances biodegradation	[65]
Low-density polyethylene (LDPE)	Bacteria	Staphylococcus epidermis		[66]
Polylactide	Fungus	Amycolatopsis sp.		[67]