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Bioplastics and waste management

Waste Management, 2018
Pollution of the marine environment due to plastic materials is one of the most severe environmental problems humanity has to face in the 21st century. The strategy devised until now to address this issue is mainly based on two pillars: (1) increasing the interception of discarded plastic wastes by waste management systems; and (2) substituting the ...
P. S. Calabrò, M. Grosso
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Protein fibrillation and hybridization with polysaccharides enhance strength, toughness, and gas selectivity of bioplastic packaging

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023
Edible bioplastic films for the preservation of perishable products are urgently needed to prevent food waste and eliminate hunger crises.
Yeyang Zhang, Y. Nian, Qi Shi, Bing Hu
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Bioplastics from microorganisms

Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2003
The term 'biomaterials' includes chemically unrelated products that are synthesised by microorganisms (or part of them) under different environmental conditions. One important family of biomaterials is bioplastics. These are polyesters that are widely distributed in nature and accumulate intracellularly in microorganisms in the form of storage granules,
José M, Luengo, Belén, García, Angel, Sandoval, Germán, Naharro, Elías R, Olivera   +4 more
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Feasibility of bioplastic production using micro and macro algae- A review.

Environmental Research, 2023
Plastic disposal and their degraded products in the environment are global concern due to its adverse effects and persistence in nature. To overcome plastic pollution and its impacts on environment, a sustainable bioplastic production using renewable ...
M. P. Sudhakar, Rahulkumar Maurya, Sanjeet Mehariya, O. Karthikeyan, G. Dharani, K. Arunkumar, S. Pereda, M. Hernández-González, A. Buschmann, A. Pugazhendhi   +9 more
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Photothermal controlled antibacterial Ta4C3Tx-AgNPs/nanocellulose bioplastic food packaging.

Food Chemistry
Uncontrolled antibacterial, insufficient barrier and low strength are the bottlenecks of food packaging applications. Herein, Ta4C3Tx nanosheet as a template was used to prepare Ta4C3Tx immobilized silver nanoparticles (Ta4C3Tx-AgNPs), which was ...
Xiaotong Wang, Simin Xuan, Keying Ding, Peng Jin, Yong Zheng, Zhengguo Wu   +5 more
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Chitinous Bioplastic Enabled by Noncovalent Assembly.

ACS Nano
Natural polymeric-based bioplastics usually lack good mechanical or processing performance. It is still challenging to achieve simultaneous improvement for these two usual trade-off features. Here, we demonstrate a full noncovalent mediated self-assembly
Xiao Ma, Xinghuan Lin, Chunyu Chang, Bo Duan   +3 more
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Narrowing the gap for bioplastic use in food packaging-an update.

Environmental Science and Technology, 2020
Plastic production has outgrown most other man-made materials, with more than 90% being petroleum-based and non-biodegradable. Packaging, primarily food packaging, consumes the most plastic and is the largest contributor to municipal solid waste.
Xiaoying Zhao, K. Cornish, Y. Vodovotz
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Bioplastic packaging in circular economy: A systems-based policy approach for multi-sectoral challenges.

Science of the Total Environment
Bioplastics have long been publicized as a sustainable plastic packaging alternative; however, their widespread industrialization is still embryonic due to complex challenges spanning multiple sectors.
Naseeba Parveen, S. Naik, Kumar Raja Vanapalli, Hari Bhakta Sharma   +3 more
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Nacre-inspired starch-based bioplastic with excellent mechanical strength and electromagnetic interference shielding.

Carbohydrate Polymers
Bioplastics have aroused significant interest in researchers to relieve the serious environmental pollution caused by the ubiquity of petroleum-based plastics.
Di Xie, Rui Zhang, Shanshan Song, Siwen Yang, An Yang, Congcong Zhang, Y. Song   +6 more
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Seaweed-based polysaccharides-Review of extraction, characterization, and bioplastic application

Green Chemistry
Seaweed biomass is gaining industrial and economic momentum as a renewable feedstock for high-value products, including nutraceuticals, value-added chemicals and bioplastics.
Lakshmi Krishnan, Nandhini Ravi, A. K. Mondal, Farjana Aktar, Manoj Kumar, Peter Ralph, Unnikrishnan Kuzhiumparambil   +6 more
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