The production process leads inevitably to the generation of large
amounts of plastic waste. The slow degradation rate, the potential
risk of accidental fire and the heavy metals content in plastic additives
have been proposed as the potential reasons for the search
for alternative means of disposal to landfill, such as re-extrusion,
mechanical recycling, chemical recycling or energy recovery [1,2].
The increasing use of these technologies has led to a decrease in
the amount of waste plastic sent to landfill sites since 2008. Alternatively,
because of the finite sources of fossil reserves, bioplastics
production is a niche industry that is being developed in an attempt
to overcome the non-degradability problem of fossil-based plastics