The production and utilization of plastics may prove beneficial, but the environmental impact
suggests the opposite. The single-use plastics (SUP) and conventional plastics are harmful …

The devastating effect of plastic waste on the ecosystem due to the rapid increase in
population has been a concern. Although stakeholders and governments invested in efforts …

The COVID-19 pandemic was first reported on 31 December 2019, in Wuhan. Since then,
the rapid spread of the virus has directly impacted various aspects of people's lives …

Plastic-based films that are commonly used in the food packaging industry are tough to
recycle due to their sorting issue and these films do not decay as they photodegrade into …

Designing scaffolds to fit with essential requirements for wound dressings is still a challenge.
A material with high antibacterial activity and biocompatibility is targeted. In this case, the …

The optimization of mechanical property and water contact angle of PLA/starch/lecithin film
was conducted using response surface methodology. The tensile strength, Young's modulus …

The optimization and modeling of the parameters, the concentration of polylactic acid (PLA),
sugarcane bagasse cellulose fibers (SBCF), and snail shell nanoparticles (SSNP), were …

Plastic‐induced environmental issues could be solved using biomaterials, such as polylactic
acid (PLA) film. PLA film is a costly solution suggesting the need to add less expensive …

Replacing traditional disposable, non-biodegradable plastic packaging with biodegradable
plastic packaging is one of the key approaches to address the issue of “white pollution” …

In recent years, research on the remediation of heavy metal contaminated soil by microbially
induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) technology has yielded significant findings …