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Tahseen Javaid, Hina Bashir, Maheen Talib, Misbah Batool, Fakhar-Ur-Rasool-Arbi.

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The growing environmental cost of the petroleum-derived plastics has made the renewed search of environmentally-friendly alternatives more vigorous, and bioplastics became a major alternative. This paper seeks to discuss the possibility of adapting one of the most common and highly needed waste products of seafood industry, fish waste, in bioplastic manufacture as a sustainable raw material resource. Fish waste, especially those that have high protein sources (including collagen and gelatin) in their composition are some of the best sources of feedstock in food biopolymers extraction. The study aims at the extraction process of these proteins by a process which is environmentally modulated and manufacturing of these proteins into useful bioplastics which have desired mechanical as well as biodegradable properties. The resultant products were bio-plastics which were characterized on their physicochemical, thermal, and morphological properties which showed potential uses in packaging and agriculture films. Such a solution not only tackles challenges of plastic pollution and fish waste management but also the development of a cyclical bioeconomy. As demonstrated in the study, there is the possibility and environmental advantage of incorporating the valorization of fish waste in the recycling of bioplastic production systems and processes.

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