The Mind-Body Problem

 The environment is everything that makes up of our surrounding or it is anything that you are very familiar with. It can be in the form of water, plants, animals or anything that you are surrounded by in this case another example of this can be polymers like plastic. Plastic have been a national issue in the world for how it can be disposed. Its production can lead to a lot of trash that can be in the form of plastic bags, water bottles, clothing, nylons, telephones and a lot more and as we all know all of these things can’t be that easy to dispose. This have led to a problem because the production of polymers in the world are nonstop and disposing it in this time are not that easy and for a single polymer to be disposed a lot of time are needed for that thing to happen. 

One of the biggest barriers in the recycling this type of conventional waste plastics that are also known as polymers is the absence of a stable and reliable supply of quality sorted materials. It specifies the practical difficulties in the recycling of spent plastics: difficulties in separating and identifying plastics, limited recycling technologies, degradation after repeated processing, polymer lower mass density, high time consumption and cost. The needed ways and hardship for a polymer to decompose needs a lot of time that is why biodegradable polymers have been invented. Biodegradable plastics generally decompose into naturally occurring components such as water, carbon dioxide, and biomass, and they are not retained in the environment for many years. This decomposition undergoes the same processes as organic matter. Thus, biodegradable plastics can be disposed of together with organic waste. Moreover, some biodegradable plastics can be a component of renewable energy sources. Through the widespread use of biodegradable materials, we could reduce the amount of waste, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure the sustainable use of environmental resources. With the advancement in technology, biodegradable polymers are introduced. From the years of littering plastic and the problems that we can get to those polymers biodegradable polymers are introduced for a big help for the environment. With the plastic waste that we can get especially with classic food packaging, it is rapidly imposing a serious environmental problem around the globe. The impacts of polymers in the environment are harmful for everyone and biodegradable polymers can be one of the solutions for this problem. Based on Jolanta Wróblewska-Krepsztul (2018), in 2014 more than 7.5 million tons of plastic waste were reported to be recycled and in 2015 the plastic industry in Europe amounted to 49 million tons of which 39.9% were food products. With that the greater interest in the use of sustainable packaging materials as they often functional and more environmentally friendly. 

The different concerns with biodegradable polymers use have been increasing for packaging applications. These different polymers that are currently explored to obtain bio-renewable sources are could be in the form of alginate, cellulose, chitosan, collagen, carrageenan, corn zein, soy and starches. With the cumulative public interest in the use of bio-renewable resource-based products in the food packaging sector the use of modern functional packaging materials is becoming increasingly popular as they are environmentally friendly. With that it just stated in this research that biodegradable polymers impact on the environment are good and its usage has been increasing because of its environmentally friendly effects. Biodegradable polymers in the environment represent a cause for concern, depending how one defines and establishes the degree of biodegradation. Bio-based and biodegradable plastics can form the basis for an environmentally preferable, sustainable alternatives to current materials based exclusively on petroleum feedstocks this biodegradable polymers or the plastic production of environment-friendly thermoplastics that exhibit properties similar to those of petroleum-based plastic but do not involve toxic components and could completely degrade in the environment.