Bioplastics for Sustainability: Manufacture, Technologies, and Environment

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. Presents the latest advances in novel materials and manufacture techniques for bioplasticsFocuses on sustainable use of bioplastics, assessing biodegradability, life cycle, recycling, waste, and environmental impactAddresses other key considerations, such as industrial scale-up, commercialization, policies, and regulation INDICE: Part I: Introduction to biodegradable, compostable, and oxodegradable bioplastics1. Individual antecedents to consumer intention to switch to food waste bioplastic products: a configuration analysisPart II: Manufacture of bioplastics2. Development of bioplastics from a microalgae consortium from wastewater3. Bioplastic for a clean environment4. Other novel materials to manufacture bioplasticsPart III: Technologies and standards for bioplastics5. Unintended use of bioplastic: carbon, land, and water footprints6. Aerobic and anaerobic degradation of bioplastics7. Standards issues toward bioplastics8. Compostable bioplastics at the industrial scale9. Chemical recycling of bioplastics10. Impact of bioplastic on the recycling of conventional plastics11. Indexes to assess their biodegradationPart IV: Economics of bioplastics12. Economics and commercialization of bioplasticsPart V: Bioplastics in environment13. Bioplastics for clean environment14. Life cycle analyses and carbon footprint of bioplastics15. Microplastics generated from bioplastics-a far-reaching review16. Bioplastics in marine environment - the insightful road to scientific wisdom17. The environmental sustainability of biowaste in bioplastic production

• ISBN: 978-0-323-95199-9
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 464
• Fecha Publicación: 05/02/2024
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés