Biodegradable polymers for sustainable environmental and economic development

Abstract

The alarming awareness related to environmental and waste management issues around the universe, status and negative effects of fossil resources, are some of the reasons why biodegradable polymers and the need for their usage is increasingly promoted for sustainable development. Moreover, there is no sustainable economic development without a sustainable environment. Researchers universally have proven that fossil resources pose a serious threat to existence of humans, plants and animals by the generation of greenhouse gases and CFC’s. Critically observing the scenario, there is no need to exaggerate the importance of the safe and healthy environment to universal sustainable development. It is a prerequisite on which human and other living things existence lies. Biodegradable biopolymers from research results do not pose such a threat to the environment and its inhabitants compared to fossil based polymers, and therefore, there is need for biodegradable biopolymers universally. Abaza et al., cited in Pathak et al.1 opined that any global scheme of development created without taking the environment into account will actually be a house built on sand.