Bioplastics for Sustainability: Manufacture, Technologies, and Environment offers an innovative approach to bioplastics, integrating state-of-the-art materials and technologies with detailed analysis of lifecycle, recycling, circularity, and environmental impact of bioplastics, and enabling circular utilization and successful scale-up of bioplastics. The book begins by introducing the fundamentals of bioplastics – including biodegradable, compostable, and oxodegradable materials – and discusses the various factors involved in encouraging commercial uptake of these materials. The second part of the book highlights cutting-edge approaches to the production of bioplastics, covering novel sources such as microalgae and organic waste, and solutions for industrial scale manufacturing. Other sections cover the environmental impact of bioplastics and routes to environmentally-friendly usage, and more. This is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students across polymer science, sustainable materials, plastics engineering, materials science, chemistry, environmental science, and engineering. In an industrial setting, this book supports engineers, scientists, and R&D professionals with an interest in sustainable manufacture and application of bioplastics, across a range of products, parts, and industries.
Part I: Introduction to biodegradable, compostable, and oxodegradable
bioplastics
1. Individual antecedents to consumer intention to switch to food waste
bioplastic products: a configuration analysis
Part II: Manufacture of bioplastics
2. Development of bioplastics from a microalgae consortium from wastewater
3. Bioplastic for a clean environment
4. Other novel materials to manufacture bioplastics
Part III: Technologies and standards for bioplastics
5. Unintended use of bioplastic: carbon, land, and water footprints
6. Aerobic and anaerobic degradation of bioplastics
7. Standards issues toward bioplastics
8. Compostable bioplastics at the industrial scale
9. Chemical recycling of bioplastics
10. Impact of bioplastic on the recycling of conventional plastics
11. Indexes to assess their biodegradation
Part IV: Economics of bioplastics
12. Economics and commercialization of bioplastics
Part V: Bioplastics in environment
13. Bioplastics for clean environment
14. Life cycle analyses and carbon footprint of bioplastics
15. Microplastics generated from bioplasticsa far-reaching review
16. Bioplastics in marine environment - the insightful road to scientific
wisdom
17. The environmental sustainability of biowaste in bioplastic production
Ajay Kumar Mishra is Professor at the Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit at College of Science, Engineering & Technology, University of South Africa, Florida Science Campus, South Africa and also a Fellow” member at Royal Society of Chemistry” UK. He received his M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in 2003 and 2007, respectively, from The University of Delhi, India. In addition, he was appointed as Senior Lecturer” in October 2009 at the Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, South Africa where he was promoted to Associate Professor” in November 2011 until December 2014. Recently, he was appointed by University of South Africa as Full Professor” since January 2015. He is also working as Adjunct Professor” at Jiangsu University, China. He has also developed a number of collaborations worldwide. He also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many peer-reviewed international journals. He is also serving as member advisory board of a number of international scientific societies, conferences and workshops. His research interest involves in the broader areas of Nanoscience/Nanotechnology; Materials Science; Polymers; Composite/Nanocomposites; Photocatalysts and Water Research. He is also actively involved in the area of nanotechnology towards the development of smart materials for various applications in the field of materials science and water research. He supervises students involved in the nanotechnology and water treatment research in projects involving finding treatments on organic, inorganic pollutants using synthetic and wastewater solutions.
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor in his research areas. He has published with Elsevier, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.
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