biodegradation; plastics; solid-state fermentation; FTIR, SEM

Synthetic plastics find their application in many sectors of human activity and thus became an indispensable part of humanlife. Plastics are produced in large extent. This leads to a high amount of plastic waste that accumulates in marine and terrestrialenvironments. High stability of plastics represents a serious environmental problem because of their poor degradation. Manyorganisms demonstrated a biodegradation potential depending on extracellular enzymes with low substrate specificity which areable to degrade a wide range of materials and compounds including plastics. In this work the capability of degradation of plasticsby microorganisms in the conditions of cultures with solid phase was investigated.