Agri-food wastes for bioplastics: European prospective on possible applications in their second life for a circular economy

A Visco, C Scolaro, M Facchin, S Brahimi, H Belhamdi… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Agri-food wastes (such as brewer's spent grain, olive pomace, residual pulp from fruit juice
production, etc.) are produced annually in very high quantities posing a serious problem …

Bioplastic from renewable biomass: a facile solution for a greener environment

G Coppola, MT Gaudio, CG Lopresto, V Calabro… - Earth systems and …, 2021 - Springer
Environmental pollutions are increasing day by day due to more plastic application. The
plastic material is going in our food chain as well as the environment employing microplastic …

Challenges and opportunities of biodegradable plastics: A mini review

M Rujnić-Sokele, A Pilipović - Waste Management & …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The concept of materials coming from nature with environmental advantages of being
biodegradable and/or biobased (often referred to as bioplastics) is very attractive to the …

Biodegradable materials in agriculture: case histories and perspectives

S Guerrini, G Borreani, H Voojis - Soil degradable bioplastics for a …, 2017 - Springer
Many applications of traditional plastic in agriculture have a short life, which on average do
not exceed 2 years and for precisely this characteristic generates large quantities of waste …

End of life of biodegradable plastics: composting versus Re/upcycling

C Gioia, G Giacobazzi, M Vannini, G Totaro… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays the issues related to the end of life of traditional plastics are very urgent due to
the important pollution problems that plastics have caused. Biodegradable plastics can help …

Sustainable utilization of fruit and vegetable waste bioresources for bioplastics production

L Gong, AK Passari, C Yin… - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Nowadays, rapidly increasing production, use and disposable of plastic products has
become one of the utmost environmental issues. Our current circumstances in which the …

Biodegradable packaging based on raw materials from crops and their impact on waste management

G Davis, JH Song - Industrial crops and products, 2006 - Elsevier
Packaging waste forms a significant part of municipal solid waste and as such has caused
increasing environmental concerns, resulting in strengthening of EU Regulations in order to …

Bioplastic wastes: the best final disposition for energy saving

V Piemonte - Journal of Polymers and the Environment, 2011 - Springer
The pressing need to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources and the
emission of greenhouse gases into the environment, in recent decades has led to the wide …

A review of bioplastics and their adoption in the circular economy

A Di Bartolo, G Infurna, NT Dintcheva - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
The European Union is working towards the 2050 net-zero emissions goal and tackling the
ever-growing environmental and sustainability crisis by implementing the European Green …

Bioplastics for a circular economy

JG Rosenboom, R Langer, G Traverso - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Bioplastics—typically plastics manufactured from bio-based polymers—stand to contribute to
more sustainable commercial plastic life cycles as part of a circular economy, in which virgin …