Biorefinery for Agro-Industrial Waste Into Value-Added Biopolymers: Production and Applications

Abstract

Agro-industrial waste (AW) could be attractive carbon (C) source that have potential for production of high value-added biopolymers. AW can be derived from different sectors based on the compositional variation and transformed into biopolymers. Biopolymers are synthesized from diverse group of microbes and can be categorized into different groups. These biopolymers are a storing compound that is available in the cytoplasm of different group of microorganisms. This chapter describes the potential of AW for production of biopolymers, which allows the conversion of organic AW into biodegradable polymer production using the ecobiotechnological approach to reduce the overall cost. This will allow the development of the low-cost biopolymers, which can have different applications in various sectors. Therefore, it will increase demand of sustainable products with the rising its market demand.