Bio-Plastics - An Alternative to Petroleum Based Plastics

Abstract

Population growth has dramatically increased the usage of different types of packaging materials which are including metals, glass, wood, paper and plastics or combination of more than one material as combinations to fulfill the necessities of human These activities thus increasing the generation of wastes secondarily which pretense a very severe environmental challenge because of their enormous quantity and disposal problem as thermoplastics do not biodegrade for a very long time