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Emerging and Advanced Technologies in Biodegradable Plastics for Sustainability

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Nor Izati Che Ab Aziz, Yusmazura Zakaria, Noor Zuhartini Md Muslim, Nik Fakhuruddin Nik Hassan

Summary

Researchers reviewed advances in biodegradable plastics as a potential solution to the growing crisis of microplastic pollution, which accumulates in ecosystems and living organisms. While biodegradable alternatives show promise, the review highlights remaining challenges around performance, cost, and ensuring these materials actually break down safely under real-world conditions.

Over the past decades, plastics’ growing interest and manufacturing have jeopardized numerous lives and pristine environments due to their accumulation and persistent contamination of degraded small plastic particles called microplastics (MPs). Hence, plastic...

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