What are Bio-Based Bioplastics?

What are Bio-Based Bioplastics?

Bio-Based means the products that are partially or wholly acquired from biomass (plants). For example, Starch or Cellulose is a renewable resource used to produce bioplastics, and they are typically derived from sugarcane. Also, Bio-Based is not equal to biodegradable....

What are Biodegradable Plastics?

Biodegradable means a chemical process in which the microbes present in the environment converts or breaks down the material organically into natural substances such as water or compost without any artificial additives. Though all materials are biodegradable, a product is considered to be Biodegradable if it usually degrades in a shorter period of time i.e., Weeks or months. The degrading process also depends on the environmental surroundings, i.e., location and temperature....

What are Compostable Plastics?

Compostable Plastics are plastics that have the capacity to endure biological decomposition in compost as a part of the available program so that it is visually distinct and breaks down into Carbon Dioxide, Water, and man-made compounds at a rate that is consistent and doesn’t leave any toxic remnants. One factor that distinguishes Compostable and Biodegradable is the necessity of Toxic residue....

Importance of Bioplastics:

To prevent environmental pollution and save the planet from suffocating, we have to reduce the use of regular plastics, and only the use of Bioplastics can do that. Our dependency on Non-Renewable resources that are more harmful to the environment can be reduced with the use of bioplastics. We can reduce pollution in a very real way by using bioplastics as they are degradable and created from renewable resources such as Corn oil, Sugar beet, Sugar cane, and plants....

Common Applications of Bioplastics:

A. Bioplastic Packaging: This is a Substitutional approach to packaging and is a genuine solution needed in the reduction of the use of regular plastics as bio-based polymers can compost fully at the end. The use of bioplastics for the manufacturers can be really easy as no exceptional equipment is needed because the packaging created from biopolymers can be manufactured using the Standard plastics processing technology....

Positive Impact of Bioplastics:

A. Consumes less energy: They save energy in manufacturing. It doesn’t require fossil fuels to be recycled, and its manufacturing process takes less amount of energy....

Negative Impacts of Bioplastics:

A. Risk of Contamination: Biodegradable plastics and Non Biodegradable plastics must be thrown away in separate garbage bins, and not all people know how to distinguish between the two, so there is a risk of contamination. If both the plastics are mixed, then they are of no use as then we might not be able to recycle biodegradable plastics....