Agribusiness Department, Faculty of Agricultural, Catholic University of De La Salle Manado, North Sulawesi 95000, Indonesia; Bioprocess Technology Division, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM Penang, Malaysia.
Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Earth, Manado State University, Tondano, North Sulawesi 95618, Indonesia.
Enzyme Microb Technol. 2023 Aug;168:110260. doi: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2023.110260. Epub 2023 May 19.
Plastic throughout the years is now one of the biggest world commodities and also the largest pollution to have an environmental impact, accumulating in landfills and also leaching into water systems and oceans. Especially with the shift to single-use disposable plastic, evermore positions plastics as the number one novel entity that pollutes the earth. This shift is also consistent in the food packaging industry. Managing plastic waste is still an issue at large, while the process of pyrolysis incineration still requires an obscene amount of energy that also does not resolve the problems with its environmental impact, the cost of mechanical-chemical degradation even outweighs the cost of producing the materials, and biodegradation process is a very slow and long process. Converting to bioplastics is one of the potential solutions to the global plastic issue. This review covers the potentials, limitations, challenges, progress and advancements of bioplastics, especially thermoplastic starch (starch-based bioplastic) in their efforts to replace petroleum plastics in food packaging and smart food packaging, especially for single-use (disposable) food packaging.
多年来，塑料已成为全球最大的商品之一，也是对环境影响最大的污染物，在垃圾填埋场中积累，并渗透到水系统和海洋中。特别是随着一次性使用的一次性塑料的转变，塑料已成为污染地球的头号新型实体。这种转变在食品包装行业也很普遍。尽管塑料废物管理仍然是一个大问题，但热解焚烧过程仍然需要大量的能源，而且也不能解决其对环境的影响问题，机械化学降解的成本甚至超过了生产材料的成本，而生物降解过程非常缓慢且漫长。转向生物塑料是解决全球塑料问题的潜在解决方案之一。本综述涵盖了生物塑料，特别是热塑性淀粉（基于淀粉的生物塑料）在替代食品包装和智能食品包装中（尤其是一次性（一次性）食品包装）的石油塑料方面的潜力、限制、挑战、进展和进步。
