Bioplastics production from agricultural wastes

Bio-based plastics have a huge market and a wide range of applications and then have become increased in economy and research. Due to the environmental hazard on all organisms and the pollution that happens in all natural resources such as air, water, plants and soil pollution and the limitation of quantity of fossil resources on our planet, the future cannot depend on petro-plastics. All fossil products should be replaced by bio-based products. The petro-plastics are one of the fossil products which should be replaced by bio-based plastics. In this study, agricultural residues were used to produce bioplastics by the extraction of the starch and adding some ingredients such as water, glycerin, vinegar and industrial colors with different ratios and in biochemical reaction under heating. This process produced a wide range of bioplastics samples with different properties such as texture, hardness and coherence. It was concluded that the bio-based materials can be used effectively to process bioproducts such as bioplastics.

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Samer, Mohamed
Dr. Mohamed Samer is an Associate Professor at Cairo University. He was conferred the PhD degree by University of Hohenheim, Germany. He has 90 publications. He has an h-index of 13 in Scopus. He led several research projects. He is member of 11 scientific societies. He serves as reviewer for 30 journals. He supervised several M.Sc. & PhD students.