BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS FOR SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING APPLICATIONS

Stable life offered by the synthetic plastic and their nonrenewable source results in waste disposal and environmental pollution. Bio degradable plastics can be obtained from various combinations of agricultural biology and micro biology. Starch, cellulose based bio degradable waste plastics would exchange with the nonrenewable plastics with lots of comparable packaging properties. Packaging industries have large applications and need in this field. Shelf life improving characters is needed by food packaging industries while high mechanical properties is needed in industrial packaging in order to resist mechanical damaging. In this paper we have discussed about the suitability factors and emerging techniques that are involved in improving packaging properties of bio plastics.