Bioplastics for Sustainability

Dr. Ajay Kumar Mishra MSc, MPhil, PhD, CSci, FRSC working as Professor at Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Besides Prof Mishra is also working as Director: Academy of Nanotechnology and Waste Water Innovations (ANWWI), South Africa and Visiting Professor at Robert Gordon University, UK, Bashir State University, Russia and Adjunct Professor at Hebei University of Science and Technology and Jiangsu University, China. He is actively serving as Chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, South Africa Chapter since 2016. Prof Mishra has published more than 400 papers in international journals/conferences, books/book chapters and others. He graduated 13 PhD, 22 Master students and hosted more than 10 postdoctoral fellows/scientist globally. He was awarded a number of international awards including Top 2% most cited scientist in the world for year 2019-2022 and Chancellor prize (2020) & many more. He is editor and editorial board member of many peer reviewed journals and scientific societies, conferences/workshops. Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 150 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas.

Part I: Introduction to biodegradable, compostable, and oxodegradable bioplastics
1. Individual antecedents to consumer intention to switch to food waste bioplastic products: a configuration analysis

Part II: Manufacture of bioplastics
2. Development of bioplastics from a microalgae consortium from wastewater
3. Bioplastic for a clean environment
4. Other novel materials to manufacture bioplastics

Part III: Technologies and standards for bioplastics
5. Unintended use of bioplastic: carbon, land, and water footprints
6. Aerobic and anaerobic degradation of bioplastics
7. Standards issues toward bioplastics
8. Compostable bioplastics at the industrial scale
9. Chemical recycling of bioplastics
10. Impact of bioplastic on the recycling of conventional plastics
11. Indexes to assess their biodegradation

Part IV: Economics of bioplastics
12. Economics and commercialization of bioplastics

Part V: Bioplastics in environment
13. Bioplastics for clean environment
14. Life cycle analyses and carbon footprint of bioplastics
15. Microplastics generated from bioplastics—a far-reaching review
16. Bioplastics in marine environment - the insightful road to scientific wisdom
17. The environmental sustainability of biowaste in bioplastic production