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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.3.71</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Bio-augmentation - Effective Method of Treating Plastic Waste - A field Study</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Mohan</surname>
                        <given-names>Naveen</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Usha</surname>
                        <given-names>R</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Department of Microbiology, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education,
Coimbatore 641021, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-09-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>09</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>3</issue>
            <fpage>1641</fpage>
            <lpage>1646</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/bio-augmentation-effective-method-of-treating-plastic-waste-a-field-study/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Polythene waste is a serious threat to our environment. There are many methods
available for its degradation. The present study shows light for eco friendly approach for
mitigating the ecological problem of the century. By using bio-augmentation, microorganisms
having specific metabolic capabilities are introduced into the contaminated site for enhancing
the degradation of plastic waste. The field trials for a period of 3 months shows clearly that
the LDPE sheets are better degraded with augmented microorganism (1.6%,4%,5.2%,8%,8.8%)
than non bio augmented soil (4%,1.6%,2.8%3.6%4%). The ecological importance of this study
is that we will be able to tackle plastic waste by adding bio-augmented strains in to an area or
dumpyard filled in with plastic waste.
		</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Bio augmentation</kwd>
        <kwd>Actinomycetes</kwd>
			<kwd>Plastic waste</kwd>
			<kwd>Degradation</kwd>
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