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Emerging and Advanced Technologies in Biodegradable Plastics for Sustainability

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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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    Nor Izati Che Ab Aziz, Noor Zuhartini Md Muslim & Nik Fakhuruddin Nik Hassan

  2. Biomedicine Programme, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia

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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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