Plastic Degrading ability of Aspergillus oryzae isolated from the garbage dumping sites of Thanjavur, India

One of the major environmental threats is the least rate of degradation or non biodegradability of the organic materials under natural condition, e.g. plastics. The plastics of various forms such as nylon, polycarbonate, polyethylene-terephthalate, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polytetraflouroethylene, polyurethane and polyvinyl chloride (Usha et al., 2011) are being continuously used in our day-to-day life. Polythene finds a wide range of applications in human s daily use because of its easy processing for various products used for carrying food articles, for packaging textiles, for manufacturing laboratory instruments and automotive components (Arutchelvi et al., 2008).