Patents

Disclosed herein is a process for microbial hydrolysis of aliphatic and aliphatic-aromatic polymer and mixture thereof, within a period as short as 10 days using a hydrolysis medium containing salt or buffer or nutrients. The process is envisaged to have potential application in hydrolysis of polymeric materials used in packaging, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries. The polymer hydrolysate produced by the process contains depolymerase which also finds several industrial applications. The biomass used in this process finds application in repeated batches for polymer degradation, rendering the process very economical.