ABSTRACT
This chapter describes food packaging materials and outlines their strengths and weaknesses with a view to draw on possible opportunities of fully biodegradable material sources. Pollution from food packaging has become a major problem in the well-being of fauna and flora, resulting in initiatives to replace conventional raw materials with natural options. Food packaging is mainly used to cover the food and predominantly acts as a barrier that protects food products from external influences. Starch is a polysaccharide carbohydrate encompassing a colossal number of glucose units linked together by glycosidic bonds. Starch is present in higher plants as semi-crystalline granules of polymers of glucose molecules, which are linked genetically to straight-chain and branched-chain structures. With the impacts of food-packaging waste materials on the environment and all the focus toward trying to reduce or totally eradicate pollution and its harm to the environment and its ecosystems, focusing on green initiatives is the preferred solution.
