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Biopolymers from Agriculture Waste and By-Products

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The scale of agricultural waste is large, including crop residues (the plant waste left in the field after harvest), which retained in the field are responsible for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Some of those materials are used for organic fertilizer, soil enrichment, or animal feed, but plenty is still available for other uses. The massive amounts of agricultural waste such as stems, leaves, seeds, pods, and more, which never make it off the farm, are a subject of research to use them as bio-based packaging materials. As concerns about waste and by-products grow, researchers around the world are working to turn those materials into useful products and find new ways of using agricultural waste or other unappreciated materials as a valuable biopolymer. The most remarkable works are focusing on the production of bio-based packaging, which can be an alternative to petroleum-based plastics.

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Mikus, M., Galus, S. (2022). Biopolymers from Agriculture Waste and By-Products. In: Nadda, A.K., Sharma, S., Bhat, R. (eds) Biopolymers. Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98392-5_6

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