STUDY OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OBTAINING BIOPLASTIC

Abstract

Introduction. What makes plastic materials so popular? And what environmental problems are emerging, conquering the whole world? Today, we can see that everything around us is made of plastic. Most of us know that most of the things around us contain plastic. Despite the wide range of applications, however, there arise many problems. Common examples include plastic pollution, plastic decontamination processes, as well as the release of gases and substances thereof into the garbage, which pollute the environment. The indiscriminate burning of plastic results in the emission of deadly gases and carcinogens into the environment. Dumping them in the landfills results in leaching of toxins into the ground and surface water resources. Recently, along with plastic recycling, we are considering ways to produce bioplastics that can replace plastics, to decompose which it takes several hundred years. Due to their natural origin, these are more biodegradable than ordinary plastic. The purpose of this work is to study the ways of obtaining bioplastics, and obtaining bioplastics in the laboratory. As a result of the work, bioplastic mass has been obtained in the laboratory, and hydrolysis of the resulting product has been carried out. Hydrolysis has been performed in three different environments. This is because pH of the environment can be different. For the same reason, it has been carried out in a weak acid, a weak base environment and a neutral environment. By observing the hydrolysis results, the resulting product changes have been determined. However, to explain its change in the context of the molecule, the method of infrared spectroscopy has been used, and results have been discussed.