Hygroscopic biopolymers like proteins and polysaccharides suffer from humidity-dependent mechanical properties. Because humidity can vary significantly over the year, or even within a day, these polymers will not generally have stable properties during their lifetimes. On wheat gluten, model highly hygroscopic biopolymer material, it is observed that larger/thicker samples be more mechanically ...

The waste created by single-use plastics is an important global issue, especially in marine environments, because they do not degrade nature. This work aimed to study the biodegradability of bioplastic blown film, which may pose a solution this problem. Polybutylene succinate (PBS) and polylactic acid (PLA) films were chosen for examination their when submerged sand under seawater floated on su...

The bioplastic can be made from sago flour and known as sagoplast. It was widely that for making bioplastic, the addition of acetic acid glycerol are needed. Products air-dried easy to grow fungi within a few weeks. This makes basis researchers undestand more about character identity sagoplast degrading fungi. Characterization identification were carried out by observed morphology analyzing 18S...

Plastics are uniquely flexible materials that offer considerable benefits as a simple packing to complex engineering material. Traditional synthetic polymers (often called plastics), such as polypropylene and polyethylene have been derived from non-renewable petrochemicals and known to cause environmental concerns due to their non-biodegradable nature. The enormous use of petroleum-based plasti...

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) is reported as polyesters of hydroxyalkanoates (HAs) which is generally synthesized by numerous bacteria and it is stored in the cytoplasm of cells as an intracellular carbon and energy sources compound. It has been considered as a replacement for conventional plastics. Microbial cell such as Alcaligenes, Pseudomonas, recombinant Escherichia coli and methylotrophs a...

Presence of plastics in the surroundings is ubiquitous, as generation booming globally and it gets accumulated oceans leading to deleterious impacts on marine life, public health surrounding environment. Owing its non-degradable nature, plastic particles remain for extended periods which automatically facilitate out spreading. Therefore, there a need shift bio-based plastics, green economy hing...

The biodegradability of three types of bioplastic pots was evaluated by measuring carbon dioxide produced from lab-scale compost reactors containing mixtures of pot fragments and compost inoculum held at 58 °C for 60 days. Biodegradability of pot type A (composed of 100% polylactic acid (PLA)) was very low (13 ± 3%) compared to literature values for other PLA materials. Near infrared spectrosco...