Rice Straw as a Source of Nanocellulose for Sustainable Food Packaging Materials: A Review
Asian countries, despite being the largest producers and yielding a significant proportion of the world’s rice, have poor disposal facilities for the harvested rice straw (stubble). Due to higher costs in their handling relative to their value, local farmers prefer the burning of stubble fields, thu...
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| description | Asian countries, despite being the largest producers and yielding a significant proportion of the world’s rice, have poor disposal facilities for the harvested rice straw (stubble). Due to higher costs in their handling relative to their value, local farmers prefer the burning of stubble fields, thus creating environmental problems. Even though the government has taken initiatives, no effective solution has been discovered to handle this large agro-waste problem efficiently. In this regard, the utilization of rice straw to develop nanocellulose (NC) products is of interest. Renewability and biodegradability, along with suitable mechanical and thermal properties required for the packaging functions, are key advantages of NC. The bio-nanocomposites prepared using NC and other bio-based polymers are also being widely considered for sustainable food packaging applications due to the reinforcement provided by NC and alternative petroleum-based packaging materials. This review provides an overview of process utilization for preparing NC products using rice straw, pulping methods, and isolation to produce bio-nanocomposites for sustainable food packaging applications. The challenges and future aspects covering the utilization of rice straw for producing NC and eventually producing active packaging materials are also discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e082bc7c82784a3fabc09932cd42bb3b2023-06-26T18:47:23ZengNorth Carolina State UniversityBioResources1930-21262023-01-0118123512385458Rice Straw as a Source of Nanocellulose for Sustainable Food Packaging Materials: A ReviewMakdud Islam0Praveen Saini1Rahul Das2Shubhra Shekhar3Akhouri Sanjay Kumar Sinha4Kamlesh Prasad5Department of Food Engineering and Technology, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal-148106, Punjab, IndiaDepartment of Food Engineering and Technology, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal-148106, Punjab, IndiaDepartment of Food Engineering and Technology, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal-148106, Punjab, IndiaDepartment of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raurkela - 769008, Odisha, IndiaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal-148106, Punjab, IndiaDepartment of Food Engineering and Technology, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal-148106, Punjab, IndiaAsian countries, despite being the largest producers and yielding a significant proportion of the world’s rice, have poor disposal facilities for the harvested rice straw (stubble). Due to higher costs in their handling relative to their value, local farmers prefer the burning of stubble fields, thus creating environmental problems. Even though the government has taken initiatives, no effective solution has been discovered to handle this large agro-waste problem efficiently. In this regard, the utilization of rice straw to develop nanocellulose (NC) products is of interest. Renewability and biodegradability, along with suitable mechanical and thermal properties required for the packaging functions, are key advantages of NC. The bio-nanocomposites prepared using NC and other bio-based polymers are also being widely considered for sustainable food packaging applications due to the reinforcement provided by NC and alternative petroleum-based packaging materials. This review provides an overview of process utilization for preparing NC products using rice straw, pulping methods, and isolation to produce bio-nanocomposites for sustainable food packaging applications. The challenges and future aspects covering the utilization of rice straw for producing NC and eventually producing active packaging materials are also discussed.https://ojs.cnr.ncsu.edu/index.php/BRJ/article/view/22327rice strawnanocellulosebio-nanocompositesustainable food packaging |
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| title | Rice Straw as a Source of Nanocellulose for Sustainable Food Packaging Materials: A Review |
| title_full | Rice Straw as a Source of Nanocellulose for Sustainable Food Packaging Materials: A Review |
| title_fullStr | Rice Straw as a Source of Nanocellulose for Sustainable Food Packaging Materials: A Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rice Straw as a Source of Nanocellulose for Sustainable Food Packaging Materials: A Review |
| title_short | Rice Straw as a Source of Nanocellulose for Sustainable Food Packaging Materials: A Review |
| title_sort | rice straw as a source of nanocellulose for sustainable food packaging materials a review |
| topic | rice straw nanocellulose bio-nanocomposite sustainable food packaging |
| url | https://ojs.cnr.ncsu.edu/index.php/BRJ/article/view/22327 |
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