Bioplastic: Unravelling the Sustainable Approach for Petroleum Plastic

Elevating environmental issues and health hazards pertaining to plastic wastes utilization has attracted researchers to explore novel and sustainable alternatives to such traditional plastics from natural resources like petroleum and other fossil fuel. The frequently utilized conventional plastics create several ecological menaces primarily due to their non-biodegradable nature and unfathomable and rapid accumulation rate leading to several health hazards. A novel, cost effective and environmentally friendly plant based sustainable and biodegradable plastic such as Polylactic acid plastic can act as suitable substitute to fossil fuel-based plastic with similar functional potencies with nontoxic nature and biodegradable attributes. Many such plant products with enormous quality for utilization as bioplastic raw product can include starch, plant biomass, vegetable oils, etc. These bioplastics are not only eco-friendly and cost effective but also highly secured and promiscuous to be utilized in diverse sectors including food, agriculture, electronics, transport, constructions and many more with higher feasibility and durability. On this panorama the concerned review is a concrete compilation of different kinds of available nature-based plastics with higher efficacy and biodegradable attributes that can easily replace the conventional petroleum-based non-biodegradable plastics for frantic applications globally with a sustainable approach toward environmental feasibility.