Beyond Chitin: Three Microbial Production Architectures for Landfill-Degradable Commodity Plastics.
The bioplastics field has oriented around industrial compostability as the primary biodegradation target. We argue this constitutes a regime mismatch: most plastic waste enters landfills - anaerobic, ambient-temperature environments in which poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and the majority of certified compostable bioplastics...