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Sustainability of bioplastics: opportunities and challenges

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dc.creator Thakur, Sourbh
dc.creator Chaudhary, Jyoti
dc.creator Sharma, Bhawna
dc.creator Verma, Ankit
dc.creator Tamulevicius, Sigitas
dc.creator Thakur, Vijay Kumar
dc.date 2018-11-13T10:53:52Z
dc.date 2018-11-13T10:53:52Z
dc.date 2018-04-27
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:39:44Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:39:44Z
dc.identifier Sourbh Thakur, Jyoti Chaudhary, Bhawna Sharma, et al., Sustainability of bioplastics: opportunities and challenges. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Volume 13, October 2018, Pages 68-75
dc.identifier 2452-2236
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsc.2018.04.013
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13627
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182481
dc.description Recycling is groundwork of the worldwide efforts to diminish the amount of plastics in waste. Mostly around 7.8–8.2 million tons of poorly-used plastics enter the oceans every year. Non-biodegradable plastics settlements in landfills are uncertain, which hinders the production of land resources. Non-biodegradable plastic solid wastes, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, various air pollutants, cancerous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and dioxins, released to the environment cause severe damage and harmfulness to the inhabitants. Due to the bio-degradability and renewability of biopolymers, petroleum-based plastics can be replaced with bio-based polymers in order to minimize the environmental risks. In this review article, bio-degradability of polymers has been discussed. The mechanisms of bio-recycling have been particularly emphasized in the present article.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.title Sustainability of bioplastics: opportunities and challenges
dc.type Article


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