ABSTRACT
Environmental issues throughout the world such as rising sea levels, rising average global temperatures, melting polar ice caps, and fast depleting petroleum resources have increased the burden on individuals and industries to find alternative resources to fulfil their demands. This chapter discusses the composites and nanocomposites produced from green materials. In recent years, sustainable development has become a major issue, and the looming depletion of oil-based resources will necessitate the usage of biomaterials derived from renewable resources. Biodegradation is the process of converting organic substrates into low molecular weight fragments that may then be degraded to carbon dioxide and water using the activities of microbial species. The development of innovative chitosanbased polymeric materials is a fascinating way to investigate the applications of chitosan-based composites.
