Abstract
Over the past decades, plastics’ growing interest and manufacturing have jeopardized numerous lives and pristine environments due to their accumulation and persistent contamination of degraded small plastic particles called microplastics (MPs). Hence, plastic recycling, composting, incineration, and sanitary landfill offer an answer to the troubling issue, yet every one of them has immense impediments and stays uncontrolled, and they lack environmental sustainability. Therefore, biodegradable plastics (BPs) from renewable raw materials address the best chance toward accomplishing sustainable development goals started universally by the United Nations (UN) in 2015. Ongoing advances in improving bioplastics have advocated their utilization in industrial applications. BPs have been effectively applied in certain businesses in which bioplastics are being created for food packaging as the best-selling product, fertilizer bags, 3D printing polymers, fishnets, medical implants, etc. Hence, studies on BPs should be reinforced, and the item advancement on BPs should be advanced and explored in the future. Further interventions in bioplastics will assist with building up the green economy globally. A brief introduction on BPs, along with the emerging and advanced technologies in biodegradable plastic research, future direction, challenges, and their role in sustainable development, has been explicitly reviewed in this chapter.
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Abbreviations
- ASTM:
-
American Society for Testing and Materials
- BPs:
-
Biodegradable plastics
- C.S:
-
Corn starch
- CA:
-
Citric acid
- CH4:
-
Methane
- CMC:
-
Carboxy methyl cellulose
- CNC:
-
Cellulose nanocrystals
- CO2:
-
Carbon dioxide
- CW:
-
Cheese whey
- EPS:
-
Extracellular polymeric substance
- FDA:
-
Food and Drug Administration
- FMCGs:
-
Faster-moving consumer goods
- GMOs:
-
Genetically modified organisms
- H2O:
-
Water
- ISO:
-
International Organisation for Standardization
- LCA:
-
Life cycle assessment
- LCM:
-
Life cycle management
- LDH:
-
Layered double hydroxide
- MCC:
-
Microcrystalline cellulose
- MMT:
-
Montmorillonite
- MPs:
-
Microplastics
- NMs:
-
Nanomaterials
- NPD:
-
New product development
- NPs:
-
Nanoplastics
- ODM:
-
Original Design Manufacturer
- OEM:
-
Original Equipment Manufacturer
- PBS:
-
Polybutylene succinate
- PCL:
-
Polycaprolactone
- PE:
-
Polyethylene
- PEG:
-
Polyethylene glycol
- PES:
-
Polyethylene succinate
- PET:
-
Polyethylene terephthalate
- PHA:
-
Polyhydroxyalkanoates
- PHB:
-
Polyhydroxybutyrate
- PHBV:
-
Polyhydroxybutyrate valerate
- PLA:
-
Polylactic acid
- PLAPU:
-
PLA-based polyurethane
- PLGA:
-
Poly(lactide-coglycol)
- PLM:
-
Product life cycle management
- PP:
-
Polypropylene
- PS:
-
Polystyrene
- PTFE:
-
Polytetrafluoroethylene
- PV:
-
Pervaporation
- PVA:
-
Polyvinyl alcohol
- PVC:
-
Polyvinyl chloride
- PVOH:
-
Polyvinyl alcohol
- SD:
-
Sustainable development
- TDPA:
-
Totally degradable plastic additive
- TPS:
-
Thermoplastic starch
- UN:
-
United Nations
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Che Ab Aziz, N.I., Zakaria, Y., Md Muslim, N.Z., Nik Hassan, N.F. (2023). Emerging and Advanced Technologies in Biodegradable Plastics for Sustainability. In: Ali, G.A.M., Makhlouf, A.S.H. (eds) Handbook of Biodegradable Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09710-2_21
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