A research group from the Graduate School of Food and Population Health Sciences, the Graduate School of Science and Technology, and the Gunma University Center for Food Science and Wellness (GUCFW), Gunma University, in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), has revealed that crab shell by-products generated during seafood processing can be used to regulate the degradation rate of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), a marine biodegradable plastic, in seawater. The study showed that when crab shells were present, the initial attachment of microorganisms to the PHBV surface…
Read MoreCrab Shell By-Products Enable Control of the Lifetime of Marine Biodegradable Plastics – A New Method to Delay PHBV Degradation in Seawater by Remodeling the Plastisphere
