Sustainable Bioremediation of Plastic Waste: How the Flame Retardant TCPP Affects Polyurethane Foam Biodegradation by Galleria mellonella Larvae

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

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Comments on the Quality of English Language

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The manuscript [Effects and Fate of Tris(1-Chloro-2-Propyl) Phosphate (TCPP) on the Biodegradation of Rigid Polyurethane (RPU) by Galleria mellonella Larvae] investigated the impact of an OPFR-tris (1-chloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TCPP) on the dietary behavior and gut microbiota of Galleria mellonella larvae during the biodegradation of rigid polyurethane (RPU), as well as the fate of TCPP. The study emphasizes the necessity to integrate risk assessments of specific additives into the plastic waste management framework and to develop targeted detoxification strategies for promoting a sustainable material lifecycle

• The objectives were reached where authors found that TCPP interfered with larval feeding activity, hindered the nutritional conversion of food, and triggered metabolic compensation through lipid reserve catabolism.
• Methods are suitable to investigate the objectives
• Introduction, discussion also well presented
• References in all sections are adequate to the study

Comments:

 

• Highlights: Delete them and you can add in the conclusion
• Keywords: Do not use any word appeared in the title
• Lines 19,77,79: Add the authority, Family and Order of Tenebrio molitor and Galleria mellonella
• Line 129: add the full name of genus due to in the beginning of the sentence, check all the manuscript to do the same comment
• In Statistical analysis section, authors should explain which data were analyzed with ANOVA or T-test
• Line 258; the 0^th day to be the zero day
• Use the past tense in results such as in line 262 to be [This result indicated …]
• Figure 1: Where are the symbols [testing, *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001, ns: not significant] in the figure?
• Figure 4: indicate x axis as [Weeks] and add only 2,4,6,8 under the columns. Explain all abbreviations in the legend as ST, BW, …
• In all results, when autors mention if the difference is significant or not, they should add all vales of statistical analysis (df, F, and P values)
• References:
• check all for the scientific names to be italic such as [Galleria Mellonella], species start with small letter not capital.
• Add autors in references of 6,7,24,53
• All all authors in references of 17,26,33,40

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The manuscript could be accepted in the current form