To date, almost all the rubber-degrading bacteria are Gram Positive Actinomycetes with few exceptions that fall under the phylum of Proteobacteria.
These rubber-degrading bacteria are widely distributed in natural environment.
Jendrossek and colleagues [26] demonstrated the wide distribution of rubber degrading bacteria found from various ecosystems in South East Asia and Europe.
Among the 33 samples analysed, soil samples of rubber plantation and wastewater ponds of a rubber-producing company in Malaysia contained highest number of rubber degrading bacteria.