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Screening, Identification and Degradation Characteristic of Polystyrene Degrading Bacteria
Zheyu PANG, Jingjing ZHAO, Tianli WAN, Jiajun LI, Lingsen YANG, Siyu ZHOU, Tingting SU
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Pollution caused by petroleum?based plastic products has become a problem that is difficult for human beings to solve, and the existing treatment methods are both energy?consuming and easy to cause secondary pollution. The study found that the bacteria that degrade plastic in the intestines of Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) larvae can effectively accelerate the degradation of plastics. This experiment uses polystyrene (PS) packaging boxes, which are common in life, as the only food source to feed the larvae of the large wax borer, enriching the PS?degrading bacteria in the intestines of the G. mellonella larvae. After dissection, culture, and isolation, four strains were obtained: PD?1, PD?2, PD?3 and PD?4. The degradation capacity of MSM culture medium with PS film as the only carbon source was inoculated with each strain, and the degradation rate of PD?1 on PS film was the highest, which was 1.8%. PD?1 was observed by strain morphology, physiological biochemical determination and phylogenetic tree construction, and it was identified as Enterobacter colebella (Klebsiella). Meanwhile, the method of UV and nitric acid pretreatment of PS film were used to improve the degradation rate of the strain, and the results showed that the weight loss rate of PD?1 degradation of nitric acid?treated PS film was improved, which was 2.5%, while the UV group was 0.8%, indicating that PS film was more easily degraded by PD?1 after nitric acid treatment.

2024, 44 (1): 15-20. DOI: 10.12422/j.issn.1672-6952.2024.01.003