It also develops biological binders or biosurfactant,biopolymers,and heat-resistant enzymes,for wastes degradation and bioremediation.

Rugby, UK The authors claim that they have replicated waste degradation in landfills using 10 litre lysimeters in a laboratory environment.

Overall, it is desirable that waste degradation in landfills should take place as efficiently and rapidly as possible, and that landfill recycling should be the aim for the future.

With this new information in hand, now we can possibly help to optimize these systems for faster waste degradation, and more effectively produce valuable biofuels from that waste, thanks to our microbe friends.

It helps to physically break up the waste, thus aiding the waste degradation process, helps to prevent materials blowing from the landfill site into the surrounding area and reduces habitats where vermin may breed.

As a researcher at the recently established Centre for Organic Waste Management at Murdoch University, Dr Pullammanappalil is finding ways to speed up biological waste degradation and harness the methane by-product as an energy source.