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Elsa M. Gonçalves, Mafalda Silva, Luiza Andrade and Joaquina Pinheiro
In the wake of escalating global concerns over the environmental impact of plastic pollution, there has been an unprecedented call for sustainable alternatives. The food-packaging industry, responsible for a staggering 40% of global plastic consumption, ...
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Runqi Lun, Wei Liu, Guojing Li and Qiyou Luo
This research aims to investigate the average and heterogeneous impacts of digital agricultural technology extension service use on eco-efficiency among 1302 maize-producing farmers from a major maize-producing area in Northeast China in 2022. The slack-...
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Xiaowei Liu, Wenliang Wei, Guocheng Liu, Bo Zhu, Jie Cui and Tao Yin
Plastic film mulching, widely used in agriculture, leads to microplastic (MP) pollution in soils. While biodegradable polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) films may offer a solution, their impacts on subsurface soils and microorganisms remain unclea...
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Liliana Edith Rojas-Candelas, Mayra Díaz-Ramírez, Adolfo Armando Rayas-Amor, Rosy Gabriela Cruz-Monterrosa, Juan Vicente Méndez-Méndez, Ma. de la Paz Salgado-Cruz, Georgina Calderón-Domínguez, Alejandro de Jesús Cortés-Sánchez and Marcela González-Vázquez
Nejayote and pericarp derived from nixtamalization are an environmental problem. Therefore, there is research interest in using these residues as new compostable and environmentally friendly materials. This work aimed to create, characterize (color, thic...
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Cristina Abbate, Aurelio Scavo, Gaetano Roberto Pesce, Stefania Fontanazza, Alessia Restuccia and Giovanni Mauromicale
The use of plastic mulch films is widespread in agriculture for specialty cropping systems because of several benefits. In this article, we critically review, for the first time under a holistic approach, the use of biodegradable plastic mulches (BdPMs) ...
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Ali Hachem, Giuliano Vox and Fabiana Convertino
Agricultural activities have been positively affected by the use of plastic products, but this has resulted in the production of plastic waste and led to an increase in environmental pollution. To continue benefiting from the use of plastics but addressi...
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Mohammad Mohsen Delavari and Ion Stiharu
Given recent worldwide environmental concerns, biodegradability, antibacterial activity, and healing properties around the wound area are vital features that should be taken into consideration while preparing biomedical materials such as wound dressings....
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Frédéric Debeaufort, Julien Riondet, Claire-Hélène Brachais and Nasreddine Benbettaieb
Single-use plastics are a major source of pollution and biodegradable polymers could be the best substitute, as they possess similar barrier and functional properties. Aiming at improving barrier properties and providing antioxidant bioactivity, PLA (Pol...
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Ewelina Basiak, Manfred Linke, Frédéric Debeaufort, Andrzej Lenart and Martin Geyer
Edible starch-based materials have shown a positive impact on quality parameters. In this study, plums (Prunus domestica cv. Jojo) were divided into five groups: a control, two coating treatments (starch and starch-whey protein (80?20%), and two film sys...
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Sagdat Tazhibayeva,Bakyt Tyussyupova,Aigerim Yermagambetova,Azymbek Kokanbayev,Kuanyshbek Musabekov
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The problem of recycling polymer waste is one of the most actual problems. One way to solve this problem is to create biodegradable food packaging. By mixing solutions of starch and agar at different mass ratios of polymers in the presence of glycerol, b...
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