Automated segregation and microbial degradation of plastic wastes: A greener solution to waste management problems

The increasing accumulation of mess up plastic waste in natural environments creates a serious threat to our oceans, human health, flora and fauna. There is an urgent need to develop new approaches towards the disposal of non-biodegradable waste materials like plastics. It is now possible to develop novel biological treatment strategies concerning non-biodegradable waste (plastics) management because of the increasing literatures on the microbial degradation of the synthetic polymers like plastics. The valuable enzyme sources of microbes are capable of degrading synthetic polymers. The proposed waste segregator and decomposer (WSD) model focuses on the segregation of the non-biodegradable wastes automatically using AI techniques and also to frame an effective degradation strategy for commonly used synthetic plastics using novel microorganisms and associated enzymes.