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Sisubalan Natarajan

Hello, Greetings. Kindly follow the attched files for your reference.

Akwasi Asamoah

You will have to review literature to reliably compare the degrading activity of these microbes on PE or conduct experiments to find this out for yourself.

Elsiddig Ahmed Elmustafa Elsheikh

Dear Patchaiyappan

You may find useful information in the following:

Usha et al (2011) Screening of Polyethylene Degrading Microorganisms from Garbage Soil. Libyan Agriculture Research Center Journal International 2 (4): 200-204, (attached).

Hadad et al (2005) Biodegradation of polyethylene by the thermophilic bacterium

Brevibacillus borstelensis. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 98, 1093–1100, (attached).

Kathiresan K (2003) Polythene and Plastics-degrading microbes from the mangrove soil. Rev. biol. trop , 51. The article is online in the following link: http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0034-77442003000300003&script=sci_arttext

Elsheikh

http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0034-77442003000300003&script=sci_arttext