Biopolymer for Sustainable Eco-friendly Environment

Abstract

Numerous synthetic polymers that have been produced are chiefly derived from petroleum and coal as raw material, which makes them unsuited with the environment, in view of the fact that they cannot be included in what is a natural recycling system. Awareness of the environmental shock that produce synthetic polymers, a solution could be the mixtures with several types and sources of biological materials, called biopolymers, for example cellulose, starch, zein, chitosan, gelatin among others and that increasingly replace synthetic polymers to address and resolve these dilemma. In this sense, several studies are designed at decreasing the amounts of plastic waste and to manufacture products with less antagonistic environment because the synthetic plastics are intricate to recycle and can stay in environment for over a century.