Sustainability of Biobased and Biodegradable Plastics

By K. Sudesh, T. Iwata. 2008

319 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

1. Martin Koller
2. G. Berg
3. F. Schmid
4. Ilona Gasser

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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2. G. Berg
3. F. Schmid
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2. G. Berg
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Citations in the corpus

• Bioplastics and food packaging: A review (2015, background): “Bioplastics have many different renewable sources such as vegetable oil, corn starch, potato starch, fibres obtained from pineapple, jute, hemp, henequen leaves and banana stems (Siracusa, Rocculi, Romani, & Dalla Rosa, 2008; Sudesh & Iwata, 2008).”
• Linking ecology with economy: Insights into polyhydroxyalkanoate‐producing microorganisms (2011, methodology): “Using the tools of life cycle assessment (LCA) and Cleaner Production studies, a lot of effort is contemporarily made to quantify the environmental impact and feasibility of processes for the production of polymeric materials [95].”
• Modern Biotechnological Polymer Synthesis: A Review (2010, background): “60 °C to initiate hydrolytic degradation; highly crystalline PLA is reported not to be biodegradable at all (41).”