Non-Microplastic Microbeads From Sago Liquid Waste With The Addition Of Chitosan as Antibacterial Function: A Review

Plastic has many advantages due to flexibility, unaffordable, transparent, and toughness. Plastics can size into small sizes (microplastics) or large sizes (macroplastics). Microbeads are granules of plastic or fiber that can often be utilized in many personal care products with sizes below 1 mm. These size of microbeads affect to environmental. Microbeads cannot be filtered by the sewage treatment system resulting microbeads go through to end up in water bodies and become a dangerous pollutant. Therefore any efforts must be conducted to replace the use of plastics microbeads. The microbeads can be prepared from with organic materials having easily degradation with stand the same functions. One of the ways can be accomplished through preparation of bacterial cellulose from sago waste since liquid waste can be used to produce bacterial cellulose. Bacterial cellulose is highly potential to be developed into microbeads as it has advantages of high purity, good tissue structure, high degradation ability, mechanical strength, and easy degradability. The utilization of sago liquid waste is very beneficial because it can reduce environmental pollution and production costs. Additionally, antibacterial properties in microbeads can introduce chitosan, eucalyptus filtrate, celery leaf extract, basil, and cinnamon. The use of chitosan as an additive in the preparation of microbeads will reduce the rate of water adsorption, improve mechanical properties, and reduce the moisture in the microbeads that would promote the ability of microbeads to against bacteria.