Table 1.
Plastic-degrading microbes.
| Microbes | Types of plastics | References |
|---|---|---|
| Bacteria | ||
| Acinetobacter baumannii | PE | Pramila and Ramesh, 2015 |
| Anoxybacillus rupiensis | Nylon | Mahdi et al., 2016 |
| Achromobacter denitrificans | PE | Ambika et al., 2015 |
| Bacillus cereus | PE | Ambika et al., 2015 |
|
Bacillus spp. Stenotrophomonas pavanii |
PE | Muhonja et al., 2018 |
| Bacillus simplex | PE | Huerta Lwanga et al., 2018 |
| Bacillus amyloliquefaciens | PE | Novotný et al., 2018 |
| Bacillus sp. | PE, PVC | Huerta Lwanga et al., 2018; Novotný et al., 2018; Park and Kim, 2019 |
| Enterobacter sp. | PE | Ren et al., 2019 |
|
Lysinibacillus sp. Salinibacterium sp. |
PE | Syranidou et al., 2017 |
| Ideonella sakaiensis | PET | Sudhakar et al., 2008; Yoshida et al., 2016 |
| Lysinibacillus fusiformis | PE | Ambika et al., 2015 |
| Paenibacillus sp. | PP | Park and Kim, 2019 |
| Brevibacillus borstelensis | PE, PET | Hadad et al., 2005; Calabia and Tokiwa, 2006; Muhonja et al., 2018 |
|
Bacillus cereus Pseudomonas putida |
PE | Muhonja et al., 2018 |
| Pseudomonas fluorescens B-22 | PVC | Danko et al., 2004; Gilan et al., 2004 |
| Pseudomonas sp. | PS | Umamaheswari and Subramani, 2017 |
| Pseudomonas aestusnigri | PET | Bollinger et al., 2020 |
| Pseudomonas protegens | PU | Hung et al., 2016 |
| Fungi | ||
|
Aspergillus fumigatus Aspergillus oryzae Aspergillus nidulans |
PE | Muhonja et al., 2018 |
| Aspergillus tubingensis | PE | Sangeetha Devi et al., 2015 |
| Aspergillus flavus | PVC | Zhang et al., 2020 |
| Aspergillus nomius | PE | Abraham et al., 2017 |
|
Aspergillus terreus Aspergillus sydowii |
PE | Sangale et al., 2019 |
|
Aspergillus niger Penicillium pinophilum |
PE | Volke-Sepúlveda et al., 2002 |
|
Cephalosporium sp. Mucor spp. |
PS | Chaudhary and Vijayakumar, 2020 |
|
Curvularia senegalensis Fusarium solani |
PUR | Howard, 2002 |
| Cladosporium cladosporioides | PU | Álvarez-Barragán et al., 2016 |
| Cochliobolus sp. | PVC | Sumathi et al., 2016 |
|
Engyodontium album Phanerochaete chrysosporium |
PP | Jeyakumar et al., 2013 |
| Penicillium simplicissimum | PE | Yamada-Onodera et al., 2001 |
| Pestalotiopsis microspore | PUR | Russell et al., 2011 |
| Zalerion maritimum | PE | Paço et al., 2017 |
| Actinomycete | ||
| Streptomyces scabies | PE | Jabloune et al., 2020 |
| Streptomyces sp. | PET, PE | Abraham et al., 2017; Farzi et al., 2017, 2019 |
|
Streptomyces species (1) and (2) Pseudonocardia Actinoplanes Sporichthya |
PE | Sathya et al., 2012 |
| Actinomadura miaoliensis sp. nov. | PE | Tseng et al., 2009 |
| Nocardiopsis sp. | PE | Singh and Sedhuraman, 2015 |
| Algae | ||
|
Scenedesmus dimorphus Anabaena spiroides Navicula pupula |
PE | Gopal, 2017 |
| Spirulina sp. | PET, PP | Khoironi et al., 2019 |