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Dr. Raj Sardar, a technical assistant working in the environment department of South Bihar Central University located in Gaya district of Bihar, has discovered a new bacteria that eats medium-weight plastic. Their discovery has been published in the high standard Q-1 international journal Frontiers in Microbiology (Impact Factor 4.5) by FrontiersMedisa Publisher from Discovery Switzerland. In his research, Dr. Sardar found a bacteria called Metabacillus Neebesis within 30 days.
Kundan Kumar: Plastic has become a part of our daily life today, but its use is also causing serious harm to the environment. Plastic is a non-degradable substance, which does not get destroyed for hundreds of years. Various efforts are being made to make the environment plastic free, but it is not being done very effectively yet. Now a big information has come out from the Environment Department of South Bihar Central University located in Gaya district of Bihar. Dr. Raj Sardar, a technical assistant working here, has discovered a new bacteria that eats medium-weight plastic. Through his research, Dr. Sardar has discovered a microbe called Metabacillus nibessis, an extremophilic bacteria that eats plastic.
About ten million tonnes of plastic is being produced every year in India, of which only 10 percent is recycled. Dr. Sardar expressed hope that this eco-friendly exploration will prove to be a milestone in making the environment pollution free. It is being told that by using this micro plastic as a source of carbon and energy for itself, the bacteria reduces the molecular weight of the plastic and increases the biomass.
Their discovery has been published in the high standard Q-1 international journal Frontiers in Microbiology (Impact Factor 4.5) by FrontiersMedisa Publisher from Discovery Switzerland. In his research, Dr. Sardar recorded the process of plastic decomposition up to 3.3 percent within 30 days with the help of a bacteria called Metabacillus Neebesis. This rate of decomposition of plastic is twice higher than any other research result.
Dr. Sardar has recorded plastic decomposition by other micro-organisms at the rate of about one and a half percent per month, up to a maximum of 12 percent. In the same year, in another research, Dr. Sardar had found a bacterium called Micrococcus flavus which was capable of decomposing plastic up to 1.82 percent, in comparison to which this discovery is much better. Metabacillus nibacis produces enzymes required for plastic degradation by internal metabolic remodeling and with the help of this it breaks down the plastic and converts it into smaller monomers.
