Agro-Waste Valorization into Bio-Plastics: A Systematic Review of Types, Synthesis, and Characteristics
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Plastics Pollution, Bioplastics, Waste Valorization, Tensile Strength, Glass Transition TemperatureAbstract
Plastics,in as much as they play relevant roles, are undeniably one of the most prominent pollutions our planet suffers over the past couple of centuries especially due to their poor degradability and poor recycling, as it is obtained that a very huge amount of plastics produced over the past century are still present somewhere here on earth most likely as pollutants rather than in actual use or recycle. This work hence looks into a very much viable substitute to these plastic products which is bio-plastics, their types, unique and varying properties, also especially how they can be easily and economically obtained from a cheap raw material source such as agro-wastes which would otherwise have been deposited as wastes in rivers and other unsuitable places. The study goes on to show the basic monomer builds of the bio-plastic polymers which are obtainable from these wastes, comparing some of their basic properties like; Tensile strength, glass transition temperature et . It also enlightens on the various areas where these bio-plastics have potential tangible applications and also where they are already in use. It also goes on to emphasize especially the improvements that need to be put in place in order to encourage the speedy inclusion of these safer products into our everyday society which can be both enacting of laws to support and also concentration of research and technology into the development of the already existing knowledge and progress in the bio-plastic industry.
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