BACKGROUND Cotton is an important domesticated fiber used to manufacture a variety of products and industrial goods. During harvesting with cotton strippers and cotton pickers, it is contaminated with foreign matter from botanical and non-botanical sources which adversely affect the quality and consistency of cotton, and therefore reduces its market value. To improve the current grading done by...

Biodegradable and compostable plastic packaging (BCPP) has the potential to reduce a global waste problem. We aimed identify influences on buying BCPP as basis for designing strategies that enable BCPP’s environmental benefits. Using UK-focused citizen science dataset, we thematically analysed 610 survey responses question exploring reasons purchase. Themes are categorised barriers enablers acc...

Nowadays, non-degradable plastic packaging materials have created significant disposal and pollution issues threatening human health development. The utilization of biodegradable can help address the issue. Cellulose is abundant renewable, cellulose-based been regarded as an alternative to petroleum-based food packaging. With development cellulose solvents, various regenerated films hydrogels f...