Department of Botany, Bioinformatics and Climate Change Impacts Management, School of Science, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2021, 09(02), 056-067
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2021.9.2.0054
DOI url: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2021.9.2.0054
Received on 15 January 2021; revised on 11 February 2021; accepted on 13 February 2021
Petrochemical based plastics have been widely used as packaging materials, as they have good barrier properties, stiffness, tensile strength & tear strength. Although in great demand plastics have many disadvantages like very low water vapour transmission rate, non- biodegradability etc. which further causes environmental pollution. Keeping in mind about the pollution and harm caused to the nature, newer concepts about the use of bio-plastics came into force. Bio-plastics are produced from the biological sources such as potato, potato peels, corn, sugarcane, wheat, rice, banana peels etc. These plastics are environment friendly & biodegradable, and are safer option than the petroleum-based plastics. These biodegradable plastics break down into carbon dioxide, water & inorganic compounds and degrade completely. The time-line, sources and other important details about the bio-plastics have been presented in this review paper.
Bioplastic; Biodegradable; Renewable; Eco-friendly; Plasticizers
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Manali Shah, Sanjukta Rajhans, Himanshu A. Pandya and Archana U. Mankad. Bioplastic for future: A review then and now. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2021, 09(02), 056-067. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2021.9.2.0054
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