Bioplastic Synthesis and Characterization from Banana Peel

In the recent years, bioplastic have attracted increasing interest due to their wide application in food packaging and in the biomedical science.These eco-friendly bioplastics reduce rapidly and replace the usage of the petroleum based plastic due to their safety and biodegradability.This research focuses on starch based bio plastic making from Musa paradisiaca .It aims to characterize the resulted bioplastic (acid test, alkali test, solubility test, biodegradability test by flame test and FTIR analysis).The bioplastic preparation takes place by banana peel .The research result concluded that the synthesis of starch based bioplastic from Banan peel was feasible solution.The analysis of functional group by FTIR shows the presence of functional group of C=C H, Aromatic hydrocarbon, α, β, NH, C=C, C=N, C-S stretching.