Plastics play an essential role in food packaging; their primary function is to preserve the
nature of the food, ensure adequate shelf life and ensure food safety. Plastics are being …

The growing world population, evolving urbanization, and globalization have created more
demand for food, which has increased challenges in food safety. Development and …

Lack of degradability and the closing of landfill sites as well as growing water and land
pollution problems have led to concern about plastics. With the excessive use of plastics and …

Plastic waste management and recycling became a serious global issue as it affects living
beings from all the ecosystems. Researchers investigated biodegradation of polyethylene …

The use of plastic mulch in agriculture has increased dramatically in the last 10 years
throughout the world. This increase is due to benefits such as increase in soil temperature …

Biodegradable polymers are a newly emerging field. A vast number of biodegradable
polymers have been synthesized recently and some microorganisms and enzymes capable …

Polymers with biodegradable properties are termed as the future “green materials”
possessing a shorter lifetime compared to synthetic polymeric materials. Though naturally …

As landfilling is a common method for utilizing plastic waste at its end-of-life, it is important to
present knowledge about the environmental and technical complications encountered …

Recent trends in biodegradable polymers indicate significant developments in terms of
novel design strategies and engineering to provide advanced polymers with comparably …

Novel biodegradable starch/clay nanocomposite films, to be used as food packaging, were
obtained by homogeneously dispersing montmorillonite nanoparticles in different starch …