From last three decades uncontrolled use of the plastics for
packaging (e.g. fast food), transportation, industry and
agriculture in rural as well as urban areas, has elevated serious
issue of plastic waste disposal and its pollution. Light-weight,
inertness, durability, strongness and low cost are the main
advantages of plastic while it has disadvantages such as, it is
recalcitrant to biodegradation and difficult to degrade
naturally. The global use of plastic is growing at a rate of
12% per year and around 0.15 billion tones of synthetic
polymers are produced worldwide every year (Premraj
and Doble 2005; Leja and Lewandowicz 2010; Das and
Kumar 2014). Accumulation rate of plastic waste in the
environment is 25 million tons/year (Orhan and Buyukgungor
2000; Nayak and Tiwari 2011; Baruah 2011; Kaseem et al.
2012) and is consequently considered a serious environmental
danger (Sivan et al. 2006; Thompson 2004). Plastic are
estimated to be 20% munciple solid waste (MSW) in United
States and Germany (Leja and Lewandowicz 2010), 7.5%
of MSW in Western Europe and 25% in Australia. In
Turkey, 11 million tons of plastic were disposed per year
(Orhan et al. 2004). In the year 1999-2000, India imported