Journal
POLYMERS
Volume 14, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym14194113
Keywords
polylactic acid (PLA); polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB); blend polymeric material; biodegradation; industrial compost; home-compost
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Funding
- Internal Grant Agency [IGA/FT/2022/006]
- Slovak Research and Development Agency [APVV-20-0256, APVV-20-0193]
- European Regional Development Fund [313011V336]
- Specific University Research Grant [FCH-S-21-7553]
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In order to make bioplastics more widely applicable, ready-to-use plastic material formulations with tailored properties should be available, ideally being home-compostable. This article presents materials based on PLA and PHB blends, which are intended for various applications and are fully biodegradable.
In order to make bioplastics accessible for a wider spectrum of applications, ready-to-use plastic material formulations should be available with tailored properties. Ideally, these kinds of materials should also be home-compostable to simplify their organic recycling. Therefore, materials based on PLA (polylactid acid) and PHB (polyhydroxybutyrate) blends are presented which contain suitable additives, and some of them contain also thermoplastic starch as a filler, which decreases the price of the final compound. They are intended for various applications, as documented by products made out of them. The produced materials are fully biodegradable under industrial composting conditions. Surprisingly, some of the materials, even those which contain more PLA than PHB, are also fully biodegradable under home-composting conditions within a period of about six months. Experiments made under laboratory conditions were supported with data obtained from a kitchen waste pilot composter and from municipal composting plant experiments. Material properties, environmental conditions, and microbiology data were recorded during some of these experiments to document the biodegradation process and changes on the surface and inside the materials on a molecular level.
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