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Methodologies to assess biodegradation of bioplastics during aerobic composting and anaerobic digestion: A review
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Bioplastics are emerging on the market as sustainable materials which rise to the challenge to improve the lifecycle of plastics from the perspective of the circular economy. The article aims at providing a critical insight of research studies carried out in the last 20 years on the degradation of bioplastics under aerobic composting and anaerobic digestion conditions. It mainly focuses on the various and different methodologies which have been proposed and developed to monitor the process of biodegradation of several bioplastic materials: CO 2 and CH 4 measurements, mass loss and disintegration degree, spectroscopy, visual analysis and scanning electron microscopy. Moreover, across the wide range of studies, the process conditions of the experimental setup, such as temperature, test duration and waste composition, often vary from author to author and in accordance with the international standard followed for the test. The different approaches, in terms of process conditions and monitoring methodologies, are pointed out in the review and highlighted to find significant correlations between the results obtained and the experimental procedures. These observed correlations allow critical considerations to be reached about the efficiency of the methodologies and the influence of the main abiotic factors on the process of biodegradation of bioplastics.
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- Authors
- Ruggero, F., Gori, R., & Lubello, C.
- Venue
- Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-06-20
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 959-975
- ISSN
- 0734-242X (ISSN-L)
- 1096-3669
- OpenAlex
- W2952939370
- Cited by
- 222
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 5.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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