Microbial diversity and function of wastewater plastisphere biofilms
The goal is to assess the impacts plastics in the wastewater system have on the oxidation pond microbiota. Plastic tokens were placed in the final oxidation ponds of a wastewater treatment to form biofilms. Plastics were sampled at 2, 6, 26 and 52 weeks where the microbial component of the biofilms were sequenced using Illumina sequencing.