Starch Based Bio-Plastics: The Future of Sustainable Packaging
By Ravindra V. Gadhave, Abhijit Das, P. Mahanwar, P. Gadekar. 2018
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Petroleum derived plastics dominate the food packaging industry even today. These materials have brought a lot of convenience and attraction to agro, food and packaging industry. These materials also have brought along with them problems relating to the safe-disposal and renewability of these materials. Due to the growing concern over environmental problems of these materials, interest has shifted towards the development and promoting the use of “bio-plastics”. Bio-plastic is a term used for sustainable packaging materials derived from renewable resources i.e. produced from agro/food sources, materials such as starch, cellulose, etc. and which are considered safe to be used in food applications. To enhance the mechanical properties, and water barrier properties, it can be blended easily with other polymer as well as nano fillers. The current paper is a review of the progress of research in starch based sustainable packaging materials.
Subfields: Biomaterials, Pollution
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Citations in the corpus
- Corn and Rice Starch-Based Bio-Plastics as Alternative Packaging Materials (2019, background): “The production of starch-based bioplastics is simple, and they are widely used for packaging applications [8,9].”
- Bio-sourced polymers as alternatives to conventional food packaging materials: A review (2021, background): “Cellulose, starch, lignin, and chitin are the most abundant natural biopolymers in their worldwide productions (Avérous & Halley, 2009; Gadhave et al., 2018).”