Bioplastics and food packaging: A review
Food packaging as a vital part of the subject of food technology is involved with protection and preservation of all types of foods. Due to economical abundance, petrochemical plastics have been largely used as packaging material due to their desirable properties of good barrier properties towards O...
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| description | Food packaging as a vital part of the subject of food technology is involved with protection and preservation of all types of foods. Due to economical abundance, petrochemical plastics have been largely used as packaging material due to their desirable properties of good barrier properties towards O2, aroma compounds, tensile strength and tear strength. Meanwhile, they have many disadvantages like very low water vapour transmission rate and the major disadvantage is that they are non-biodegradable and result in environmental pollution. Keeping in view the non-renewable nature and waste disposal problem of petroleum, newer concept of use of bioplastics came into existence. Bioplastics of renewable origin are compostable or degradable by the enzymatic action of micro-organisms. Generally biodegradable polymers get hydrolysed into CO2, CH4, inorganic compounds or biomass. The use of bio-origin materials obtained through microbial fermentations, starch and cellulose has led to their tremendous innovative uses in food packaging in the last few years. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a748091b6424854889f03b45f95923d2022-12-22T01:06:18ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Food & Agriculture2331-19322015-12-011110.1080/23311932.2015.11177491117749Bioplastics and food packaging: A reviewNafisa Jabeen0Ishrat Majid1Gulzar Ahmad Nayik2SKUAST-KashmirSLIETSLIETFood packaging as a vital part of the subject of food technology is involved with protection and preservation of all types of foods. Due to economical abundance, petrochemical plastics have been largely used as packaging material due to their desirable properties of good barrier properties towards O2, aroma compounds, tensile strength and tear strength. Meanwhile, they have many disadvantages like very low water vapour transmission rate and the major disadvantage is that they are non-biodegradable and result in environmental pollution. Keeping in view the non-renewable nature and waste disposal problem of petroleum, newer concept of use of bioplastics came into existence. Bioplastics of renewable origin are compostable or degradable by the enzymatic action of micro-organisms. Generally biodegradable polymers get hydrolysed into CO2, CH4, inorganic compounds or biomass. The use of bio-origin materials obtained through microbial fermentations, starch and cellulose has led to their tremendous innovative uses in food packaging in the last few years.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2015.1117749bioplasticpetrochemicalpolymerasepackagingbiodegradable |
| spellingShingle | Nafisa Jabeen Ishrat Majid Gulzar Ahmad Nayik Bioplastics and food packaging: A review Cogent Food & Agriculture bioplastic petrochemical polymerase packaging biodegradable |
| title | Bioplastics and food packaging: A review |
| title_full | Bioplastics and food packaging: A review |
| title_fullStr | Bioplastics and food packaging: A review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bioplastics and food packaging: A review |
| title_short | Bioplastics and food packaging: A review |
| title_sort | bioplastics and food packaging a review |
| topic | bioplastic petrochemical polymerase packaging biodegradable |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2015.1117749 |
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