Plastic was first developed in England in the 1850s, and is now widely used in all aspects of life and have gradually become an indispensable part (Zhuang 2022). Billions of virgin plastic products produced to date that are eventually discarded in the natural environment (Nielsen et al. 2020). Almost 6.3 billion tons of plastics were produced worldwide in 2015 and the number is increasing exponentially each year because of its efficient and versatile use (Yuan et al. 2020). In 2020 alone, the global plastic production has been nearly 400 million tons (Feil and Pretz 2020). India produces approximately 12 million tonnes of plastics every year while 9205 tonnes are recycled per day (Kartikey et al. 2016). The various forms of plastics continuously used in day-to-day life are nylon, polycarbonate, polyethylene-terephthalate, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polytetraflouroethylene, polyurethane and polyvinyl chloride (Smith 1964). Polythene is a linear hydrocarbon polymers consisting of long chains of the ethylene monomers (C2H4). The general formula of polyethylene is CnH2n, where ‘n’ is the number of carbon atoms (Bhaduri et al. 2008). Polythene is produced by an efficient catalytic polymerization of ethylene monomers of cheap petrochemical stocks of oil or gas (Fuhs 1961). Polyethylene is among the most commonly used material in making the shopping bags, plastic bottles, milk jugs, films, and toiletry bottles used in daily life (Romani et al. 2020). Non biodegradation of plastics causes widespread pollution due to their accumulation in the environment (Li et al. 2020b). As per report due to plastic pollution in the marine environment minimum 267 species are being affected which includes all mammals, sea turtles (86%) and seabirds (44%). Plastic leads to the intestinal choking/blockage of the sea inhabitants and death of almost one million marine animals due to ingestion or entanglement (Shah et al. 2008). Polyethylene pollution in soils has become a serious problem due to widespread use of Polyethylene products in agricultural mulch, composite materials and packaging, coupled with improper recycling. The presence of polyethylene microplastics reduces the soil adsorption capacity, the particle size of aggregates, and the diversity of bacteria and fungi (Hoe et al. 2021). The plastic sheets or bags do not allow water and air to go into the earth which causes soil infertility (Starnecker et al. 1996). Small plastic particles even accumulate around seed pores, delaying the germination and growth of terrestrial vascular plants (Bosker et al. 2019). In the landfill plastic does not degrade for thousands of years, causing infertility in land and environmentally unsafe for its inhabitants (Sarker et al. 2011). Three types of polymer degradation methods are there in the literature such as photodegradation, thermo- oxidative degradation and biodegradation. The biodegradation is a natural process of degrading materials by microbes such as bacteria, fungi and algae (Sangle et al. 2012). The main motive of this mechanism of polythene (PE) degradation is to initiate first abiotic oxidation (photo or thermo) followed by microbial biodegradation (Abrusci et al. 2011). During the biodegradation of plastics, microorganisms firstly decrease the molecular weight of the plastics, followed by the transformation of the polymer to its monomers. Monomers are then broken down in a process of mineralization with the release carbon dioxide, water, and methane (Zheng 2005). The process of plastic degradation by microbes is due the activity of certain microbial enzymes (Usha et al. 2011). In the first step, there is adhesion of microbial enzyme to the polyethylene substrate followed by the hydrolytic cleavage. Microbial enzymes that lead to biodegradation of polyethylene are identified to be proteases, lipases, cutinases, laccases, manganese peroxidases, lignin peroxidases, alkane hydroxylases, etc., (Ahmed et al. 2018). Some of the important bacteria reported for the biodegradation of LDPE includes, Bacillus spp., Pseudomonas spp., Streptomyces spp., Rhodococcus sp., Acinetobacter sp., Brevibacillus sp., Flavobacterium spp., Ralstonia spp., Staphylococcus spp., Stenotrophomonas spp., Micrococus spp., Microbacterium sp. and Nocardia sp. (Harshvardhan et al. 2013). The main aim of the work is to isolate, identify, and characterize the bacteria from dumped soil area and screening of the potential plastic degrading bacteria and identifying the high potential bacteria that degrade the plastics.