Biological and synthetic biology strategies for polystyrene degradation: mechanisms, microbial advances, and circular economy perspectives

Microorganisms of Technological Interest: A Critical Review of Diversity, Metabolites and Biotechnological Uses

It is concluded that microbial diversity is technologically valuable when converted into predictable, robust and recoverable function at relevant scale when converted into phenotype-to-process matching.

Microbial and Enzymatic Strategies for Plastic Waste Biodegradation: Mechanistic Pathways, Environmental Challenges, and Emerging Biotechnological Strategies

This review includes various bacterial and fungal enzymes associated with major stages of microbial plastic degradation, including biodeterioration, biofragmentation, bioassimilation, and mineralization and highlights recent advancements in metagenomics, enzyme engineering, synthetic biology, and multi‐omics approaches...

The role of microbial metabolic engineering for circular plastics economy

Emerging and Re-Emerging Challenges in Microbial Plastic Degradation and Prospects: A Review

This review aims to synthesize knowledge on plastics and microbial plastic degradation, with particular focus on emerging and re-emerging challenges that hinder its large-scale application.

Fungal Biotechnology for Sustainable Biocomposites: From Mycelium Growth to Material Translation

This review critically evaluates mycelium-based biocomposites, with particular emphasis on the relationships between fungal biosynthesis, substrate transformation, processing strategies, and resulting material properties.

Microbial Bioremediation for Environmental Sustainability: Recent Developments

The reviewed research shows that microbial technologies have the potential of providing efficient pollutant management as well as resource recovery in the form of biogas, microbial biomass, biopolymers, nutrients and metals, thus making circular economy possible.