期刊
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
卷 343, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126079
关键词
Anaerobic digestion; PBAT/PLA; Food waste; Degradation; Microbial analysis
资金
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFD1100600]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52000144]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019 M661626]
- Key Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province, China [2021C03024]
This study assessed the degradation of PBAT/PLA based biopolymer bags during digestion processes, finding no biological degradation after digestion but subsequent aerobic treatment facilitated the degradation of polymers.
Degradation of bioplastics in food-waste-treating anaerobic digestion (AD) plants is becoming an increasingly concerning issue as they are inevitably mixed with food waste during the waste collection process. The aim of this study was to assess the degradation of PBAT/PLA based biopolymer bags during mesophilic and thermophilic AD, co-digested with food waste, and subsequent aerobic post-treatment. After the AD process, no discernable biological degradation was observed for all of the PBAT/PLA polymers. The comparison of FTIR, XRD, TG analysis and contact angle analysis between raw and degraded PBAT/PLA polymer revealed structural changes after anaerobic incubation. Subsequent aerobic treatment facilitated the degradation of the PBAT/PLA polymers from thermophilic AD, which was attributed to the polymer-degrading microorganisms Brevundimonas and Sphingobacterium. Physical disintegration of the PBAT/PLA polymer was observed under thermophilic conditions. Those undegraded polymer fragments could affect digestate quality and increase the risk of releasing microplastics into the environment.
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