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ClearLignocellulosic Agricultural Waste Valorization to Obtain Valuable Products: An Overview
This review covers methods for turning agricultural plant waste into valuable products like biofuels, bioplastics, and animal feed. While not directly about microplastics, it is relevant because developing bioplastics from plant waste could reduce dependence on petroleum-based plastics that break down into microplastics. These sustainable alternatives could help decrease the amount of microplastic pollution entering the environment and food chain.
Agro-Food Waste Valorization for Sustainable Bio-Based Packaging
This review examines how waste from food processing can be repurposed into biodegradable packaging materials as an alternative to conventional plastics. Researchers have developed films and coatings from fruit peels, grain husks, and other agricultural byproducts, though most solutions remain at the laboratory stage. Replacing traditional plastic packaging with these bio-based alternatives could help reduce the generation of microplastics that contaminate food and water supplies.
A Review of Potency of Cassava Peel Waste and Seaweed Carrageenan as Environmentally Friendly Bioplastic
This Indonesian review examines the potential of cassava peel waste and seaweed carrageenan as raw materials for making biodegradable bioplastics. Replacing conventional plastic packaging with plant-based alternatives could reduce the microplastic particles that accumulate in soil and water from degrading conventional plastics.
Microbial Degradation of Agricultural and Food Wastes into Value-Added Products
This review covers microbial biodegradation of agricultural and food waste into bioenergy and other products, noting plastic waste from agriculture — including microplastics — as an urgent pollution concern in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. It discusses factors affecting plastic biodegradation and highlights the promise of converting waste into value-added outputs like biogas and fertilizer.
A comprehensive review of food waste valorization for the sustainable management of global food waste
This review examines methods for turning food waste into valuable products as part of sustainable waste management. While not directly about microplastics, the topic is relevant because food waste and plastic waste are often mixed together in waste streams, and food packaging is a major source of microplastic contamination. Better food waste management could help reduce the spread of microplastics that often accompany food waste into the environment.
A Review on Cassava Residues as Adsorbents for Removal of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in Water and Wastewater
This paper is not relevant to microplastics research — it reviews cassava agricultural residues as adsorbents for removing heavy metals and organic pollutants from water, covering adsorption kinetics and thermodynamics.
Sprayable starch films for agricultural mulching
This study developed biodegradable cassava starch films sprayed directly onto agricultural soil as a plastic-free alternative to conventional plastic mulch films. Replacing plastic agricultural mulches with biodegradable alternatives could significantly reduce the microplastic contamination accumulating in farmland soil.
Valorization of agro-industrial waste from the cassava industry as esterified cellulose butyrate for polyhydroxybutyrate-based biocomposites
This study produced biodegradable biocomposites from cassava pulp microcrystalline cellulose and in-house synthesized polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) biopolymer. The cassava agro-industrial waste-based materials offer a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based plastics for packaging applications, with the potential to reduce environmental microplastic accumulation.
Innovative Packaging Solutions from Agri-food Wastes and By-products
This review examined biodegradable bio-packaging materials derived from agri-food wastes as alternatives to petrochemical plastics, covering their preparation, properties, and use in food industries. While bio-packaging reduces microplastic accumulation and carbon footprint, the authors noted ongoing challenges in mechanical performance and cost.
The Production of High-Added-Value Bioproducts from Non-Conventional Biomasses: An Overview
This paper is not relevant to microplastics research — it is a broad review of biomass valorisation from food-processing residues for producing bioproducts, focused on circular economy applications in the food and materials sectors.
Recent Developments in Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Based Biocomposites and Their Potential Industrial Applications: A Comprehensive Review
This review covered recent advances in cassava-based biocomposites and biopolymers as sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based plastics, surveying applications in packaging, agriculture, and construction. Cassava starch and its derivatives showed versatile performance when blended with other natural polymers or reinforced with natural fibers.
Agricultural Waste Management for Food Security and Sustainability
This review examines how agricultural waste, including crop residues, animal manure, and food processing by-products, can be transformed into valuable resources through composting, biogas production, and biochar application. The authors highlight that new technologies like AI and IoT are helping optimize these recycling processes. The findings are relevant to microplastic concerns because improper agricultural waste management contributes to soil and water pollution, including plastic contamination from fertilizer coatings and mulch films.
Exploring banana peels as a renewable source for bioplastic development
Despite its title referencing bioplastics, this paper studies the development of biodegradable films made from banana peel waste and corn starch — not microplastic pollution. It examines mechanical properties and biodegradability of these food-packaging alternatives, and while reducing conventional plastic use is relevant to microplastic prevention, the paper itself does not study microplastics.
Plastic waste as a novel substrate for industrial biotechnology
This paper reviewed the potential of plastic waste as a novel substrate for industrial biotechnology, arguing that plastic polymers could serve as feedstocks for microbial processes that generate value-added chemicals or fuels.
An overview: exploring the potential of fruit and vegetable waste and by-products in food biodegradable packaging
Researchers reviewed how fruit and vegetable processing waste — rich in polyphenols, vitamins, and fiber — can be transformed into biodegradable food packaging films and coatings, offering an eco-friendly alternative to conventional plastic packaging. Repurposing food waste this way could simultaneously reduce plastic pollution (including microplastics from packaging degradation) and address agricultural waste disposal challenges.
Bio-based and Sustainable Food Packaging Technology: Relevance, Challenges and Prospects
A review assessed bio-based and sustainable food packaging technologies, evaluating their relevance as replacements for conventional plastic packaging that generates microplastic pollution. The study identifies the most promising materials and the barriers to scaling up plastic-free food packaging.
Development of Biodegradable Rigid Foams from Pineapple Field Waste
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper develops biodegradable rigid foam materials from pineapple agricultural waste (starch and cellulose) as a sustainable packaging alternative to petroleum-based plastics.
Bioplastics from Waste Biomass: Paving the Way for a Sustainable Future
This review investigates the use of waste biomass -- including agricultural residues and food waste -- as feedstocks for producing bioplastics as a sustainable alternative to fossil-fuel-derived conventional plastics. The authors assess the potential of different waste biomass sources to yield biodegradable polymers that reduce both carbon emissions and microplastic accumulation in the environment.
Development of Biodegradable Films from Carrot, Guava, and Banana Peel Fibers for Environmental Packaging Applications
Despite its classification in this database, this study develops biodegradable packaging films from fruit and vegetable fibers rather than investigating microplastic pollution directly. Films made from 60% guava fiber with 1.8% alginate showed the best mechanical properties and highest soil degradation rate, offering a potential alternative to conventional plastic packaging.
Towards a Sustainable Future: Advancing an Integrated Approach for the Recycling and Valorization of Agricultural Plastics
This review surveys current methods for recycling and valorizing agricultural plastics—films, mulches, and greenhouse covers—highlighting that inadequate end-of-life management leads to soil and water contamination and eventual microplastic formation. A more integrated, circular approach to agricultural plastic design and disposal is needed to prevent these materials from fragmenting into persistent environmental pollutants.
Sorbitol-Based Biodegradable Plastics from Rubberized Cassava Starch and Tofu Dregs Starch
Not relevant to microplastics — this study develops biodegradable plastic from cassava starch and tofu dregs with sorbitol as a plasticizer, focused on creating a petroleum-free alternative material rather than addressing microplastic contamination.
Exploring Agricultural and Industrial Fruit-Based Waste/By-products for Eco-friendly Multifunctional Bio-based Food Packaging and Coating Materials
Researchers reviewed how agricultural and industrial fruit waste — including peels, seeds, and pomace — can be converted into multifunctional bio-based food packaging materials with demonstrated antimicrobial, antioxidant, and shelf-life-extending properties, while identifying scalability and regulatory alignment as key barriers to widespread adoption.
Co-Valorisation Energy Potential of Wastewater Treatment Sludge and Agroforestry Waste
Not relevant to microplastics — this study characterizes the energy potential of various biomass feedstocks including sewage sludge, forestry waste, swine manure, cork, and biochar as renewable energy co-valorisation resources, finding substantial variation in calorific values across materials.
Preliminary Techno-Economic Feasibility of Biodegradable Food Packaging from Luffa Acutangula Peel in Indonesia
Researchers conducted a preliminary techno-economic feasibility assessment of biodegradable food packaging made from Luffa acutangula peel as an alternative to conventional plastics, addressing growing concerns about microplastic and nanoplastic contamination from food packaging in Indonesia.