<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">This document describes a laboratory test method to determine the aerobic biodegradation of plastic materials exposed to seawater using accelerated conditions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Furthermore, this document describes the general requirements of the apparatus and the procedures for using this test method. </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">This test method is designed to give an early indication of the potential biodegradability of plastic materials in marine environment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">For the purpose of promoting the development of biodegradable plastics, this document also provides a method for measuring the biomass components produced by metabolizing the test </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-fareast-language: JA;">material </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">before it is completely mineralized to CO<sub>2</sub>, that enables to evaluate the potential biodegradability considered by carbon flow by the sum of the degree of biodegradation based on O<sub>2</sub> or CO<sub>2</sub> analysis and the degree of conversion to biomass in much shorter period of time than full mineralization.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">This method is not suitable to assess the degree of disintegration of plastic materials caused by abiotic factors like heat or UV radiation.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">This document describes a laboratory test method to determine the aerobic biodegradation of plastic materials exposed to seawater using accelerated conditions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Furthermore, this document describes the general requirements of the apparatus and the procedures for using this test method. </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">This test method is designed to give an early indication of the potential biodegradability of plastic materials in marine environment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">For the purpose of promoting the development of biodegradable plastics, this document also provides a method for measuring the biomass components produced by metabolizing the test </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-fareast-language: JA;">material </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">before it is completely mineralized to CO<sub>2</sub>, that enables to evaluate the potential biodegradability considered by carbon flow by the sum of the degree of biodegradation based on O<sub>2</sub> or CO<sub>2</sub> analysis and the degree of conversion to biomass in much shorter period of time than full mineralization.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">This method is not suitable to assess the degree of disintegration of plastic materials caused by abiotic factors like heat or UV radiation.</span></p>
