Development of tailored indigenous marine consortia for the degradation of naturally weathered polyethylene films

Evdokia Syranidou; Katerina Karkanorachaki; Filippo Amorotti; Eftychia Repouskou; Kevin Kroll; Boris Kolvenbach; Philippe F-X Corvini; Fabio Fava; Nicolas Kalogerakis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0183984

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Development of tailored indigenous marine consortia for the degradation of naturally weathered polyethylene films

Evdokia Syranidou,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
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Katerina Karkanorachaki,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
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Filippo Amorotti,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Eftychia Repouskou,

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation School of Mineral Resources Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
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Kevin Kroll,

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Institute for Ecopreneurship, School of Life Sciences, FHNW, Muttenz, Switzerland
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Boris Kolvenbach,

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Institute for Ecopreneurship, School of Life Sciences, FHNW, Muttenz, Switzerland
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Philippe F-X Corvini,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Institute for Ecopreneurship, School of Life Sciences, FHNW, Muttenz, Switzerland
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Fabio Fava,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Nicolas Kalogerakis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nicolas.kalogerakis@enveng.tuc.gr

Affiliation School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7033-0302

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Development of tailored indigenous marine consortia for the degradation of naturally weathered polyethylene films

Evdokia Syranidou,
Katerina Karkanorachaki,
Filippo Amorotti,
Eftychia Repouskou,
Kevin Kroll,
Boris Kolvenbach,
Philippe F-X Corvini,
Fabio Fava,
Nicolas Kalogerakis

Published: August 25, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183984

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