Over the years, the demand and the production of commodity plastics have increased exponentially. On the other hand, this has caused a disturbing amount of plastic waste to be generated. To make things worse, most of these heavily used commodity plastics are derived from non-renewable resources and are non-degradable. One solution to this problem is to synthesize biorenewable or degradable polymers from plant waste material that can replace current commodity plastics. This presentation will describe the synthesis of biopolyesters from sinapic acid obtained from mustard seed meal.

Extraction, synthesis, and characterization of biopolymers from plant waste

2019 Spring National Meeting

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