Bioplastics for Sustainability
Manufacture, Technologies, and Environment
- 1st Edition - February 2, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Ajay Kumar Mishra, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 1 9 9 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 2 0 0 - 2
Bioplastics for Sustainability: Manufacture, Technologies, and Environment offers an innovative approach to bioplastics, integrating state-of-the-art materials and technolog… Read more
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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 bioplastics
- Focuses on sustainable use of bioplastics, assessing biodegradability, life cycle, recycling, waste, and environmental impact
- Addresses other key considerations, such as industrial scale-up, commercialization, policies, and regulation
Academia: Researchers and advanced students across polymer science, sustainable materials, plastics engineering, materials science, chemistry, environmental science, and engineering. Industry: Engineers, scientists and R&D professionals with an interest in sustainable manufacture and application of bioplastics, across a range of products, parts, and industries
Part I: Introduction to biodegradable, compostable, and oxodegradable bioplastics
1. Individual antecedents to consumer intention to switch to food waste bioplastic products: a configuration analysis
Part II: Manufacture of bioplastics
2. Development of bioplastics from a microalgae consortium from wastewater
3. Bioplastic for a clean environment
4. Other novel materials to manufacture bioplastics
Part III: Technologies and standards for bioplastics
5. Unintended use of bioplastic: carbon, land, and water footprints
6. Aerobic and anaerobic degradation of bioplastics
7. Standards issues toward bioplastics
8. Compostable bioplastics at the industrial scale
9. Chemical recycling of bioplastics
10. Impact of bioplastic on the recycling of conventional plastics
11. Indexes to assess their biodegradation
Part IV: Economics of bioplastics
12. Economics and commercialization of bioplastics
Part V: Bioplastics in environment
13. Bioplastics for clean environment
14. Life cycle analyses and carbon footprint of bioplastics
15. Microplastics generated from bioplastics—a far-reaching review
16. Bioplastics in marine environment - the insightful road to scientific wisdom
17. The environmental sustainability of biowaste in bioplastic production
1. Individual antecedents to consumer intention to switch to food waste bioplastic products: a configuration analysis
Part II: Manufacture of bioplastics
2. Development of bioplastics from a microalgae consortium from wastewater
3. Bioplastic for a clean environment
4. Other novel materials to manufacture bioplastics
Part III: Technologies and standards for bioplastics
5. Unintended use of bioplastic: carbon, land, and water footprints
6. Aerobic and anaerobic degradation of bioplastics
7. Standards issues toward bioplastics
8. Compostable bioplastics at the industrial scale
9. Chemical recycling of bioplastics
10. Impact of bioplastic on the recycling of conventional plastics
11. Indexes to assess their biodegradation
Part IV: Economics of bioplastics
12. Economics and commercialization of bioplastics
Part V: Bioplastics in environment
13. Bioplastics for clean environment
14. Life cycle analyses and carbon footprint of bioplastics
15. Microplastics generated from bioplastics—a far-reaching review
16. Bioplastics in marine environment - the insightful road to scientific wisdom
17. The environmental sustainability of biowaste in bioplastic production
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 2, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Ajay Kumar Mishra
Dr. Ajay Kumar Mishra MSc, MPhil, PhD, CSci, FRSC working as Professor at Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Besides Prof Mishra is also working as Director: Academy of Nanotechnology and Waste Water Innovations (ANWWI), South Africa and Visiting Professor at Robert Gordon University, UK, Bashir State University, Russia and Adjunct Professor at Hebei University of Science and Technology and Jiangsu University, China. He is actively serving as Chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, South Africa Chapter since 2016. Prof Mishra has published more than 400 papers in international journals/conferences, books/book chapters and others. He graduated 13 PhD, 22 Master students and hosted more than 10 postdoctoral fellows/scientist globally. He was awarded a number of international awards including Top 2% most cited scientist in the world for year 2019-2022 and Chancellor prize (2020) & many more. He is editor and editorial board member of many peer reviewed journals and scientific societies, conferences/workshops.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemistry, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South AfricaCM
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor in his research areas. He has published with Elsevier, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor and Director of Laboratories, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USARead Bioplastics for Sustainability on ScienceDirect