Bioplastics for Sustainability: Manufacture, Technologies, and Environment offers an innovative approach to bioplastics, integrating state-of-the-art materials and technologies with detailed analysis of lifecycle, recycling, circularity, and environmental impact of bioplastics, and enabling circular utilization and successful scale-up of bioplastics. The book begins by introducing the fundamentals of bioplastics - including biodegradable, compostable, and oxodegradable materials - and discusses the various factors involved in encouraging commercial uptake of these materials. The second part of the book highlights cutting-edge approaches to the production of bioplastics, covering novel sources such as microalgae and organic waste, and solutions for industrial scale manufacturing. Other sections cover the environmental impact of bioplastics and routes to environmentally-friendly usage, and more. This is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students across polymer science, sustainable materials, plastics engineering, materials science, chemistry, environmental science, and engineering. In an industrial setting, this book supports engineers, scientists, and R&D professionals with an interest in sustainable manufacture and application of bioplastics, across a range of products, parts, and industries.

Part I: Introduction to biodegradable, compostable, and oxodegradable bioplastics
1. Individual antecedents to consumer intention to switch to food waste bioplastic products: a configuration analysis
Part II: Manufacture of bioplastics
2. Development of bioplastics from a microalgae consortium from wastewater
3. Bioplastic for a clean environment
4. Other novel materials to manufacture bioplastics
Part III: Technologies and standards for bioplastics
5. Unintended use of bioplastic: carbon, land, and water footprints
6. Aerobic and anaerobic degradation of bioplastics
7. Standards issues toward bioplastics
8. Compostable bioplastics at the industrial scale
9. Chemical recycling of bioplastics
10. Impact of bioplastic on the recycling of conventional plastics
11. Indexes to assess their biodegradation
Part IV: Economics of bioplastics
12. Economics and commercialization of bioplastics
Part V: Bioplastics in environment
13. Bioplastics for clean environment
14. Life cycle analyses and carbon footprint of bioplastics
15. Microplastics generated from bioplastics-a far-reaching review
16. Bioplastics in marine environment - the insightful road to scientific wisdom
17. The environmental sustainability of biowaste in bioplastic production