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Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts
Plastics are ubiquitous in our society. They are in our phones, clothes, bottles, and cars. Yet having improved our lives considerably, they now threaten our environment and our health. The associated carbon emissions and persistency of plastics challenge the fragile balance of many ecosystems. One...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7821290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33112051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202002044 |
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description | Plastics are ubiquitous in our society. They are in our phones, clothes, bottles, and cars. Yet having improved our lives considerably, they now threaten our environment and our health. The associated carbon emissions and persistency of plastics challenge the fragile balance of many ecosystems. One solution is using biodegradable plastics. Ideally, such plastics are easily assimilated by microorganisms and disappear from our environment. This can help reduce the problems of climate change, microplastics, and littering. However, biodegradable plastics are still only a tiny portion of the global plastics market and require further efforts in research and commercialization. Here, a critical overview of the state of the art of biodegradable plastics is given. Using a material flow analysis, the challenges of the plastic market are highlighted, and with it the large market potential of biodegradable plastics. The environmental and socio‐economic impact of plastics, government policies, standards and certifications, physico‐chemical properties, and analytical techniques are covered. The Review concludes with a personal outlook on the future of bioplastics, based on our own experience with their development and commercialization. |
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spelling | pubmed-78212902021-01-29 Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts Filiciotto, Layla Rothenberg, Gadi ChemSusChem Reviews Plastics are ubiquitous in our society. They are in our phones, clothes, bottles, and cars. Yet having improved our lives considerably, they now threaten our environment and our health. The associated carbon emissions and persistency of plastics challenge the fragile balance of many ecosystems. One solution is using biodegradable plastics. Ideally, such plastics are easily assimilated by microorganisms and disappear from our environment. This can help reduce the problems of climate change, microplastics, and littering. However, biodegradable plastics are still only a tiny portion of the global plastics market and require further efforts in research and commercialization. Here, a critical overview of the state of the art of biodegradable plastics is given. Using a material flow analysis, the challenges of the plastic market are highlighted, and with it the large market potential of biodegradable plastics. The environmental and socio‐economic impact of plastics, government policies, standards and certifications, physico‐chemical properties, and analytical techniques are covered. The Review concludes with a personal outlook on the future of bioplastics, based on our own experience with their development and commercialization. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-10-28 2021-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7821290/ /pubmed/33112051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202002044 Text en © 2020 The Authors. ChemSusChem published by Wiley-VCH GmbH This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Reviews Filiciotto, Layla Rothenberg, Gadi Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts |
title | Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts |
title_full | Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts |
title_fullStr | Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts |
title_full_unstemmed | Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts |
title_short | Biodegradable Plastics: Standards, Policies, and Impacts |
title_sort | biodegradable plastics: standards, policies, and impacts |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7821290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33112051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202002044 |
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