An Innovative Method for the Recycling of Waste Carbohydrate-Based Flours.

ABSTRACT: This work represents an innovative study that, for the first time, explores the possibility to use waste flours to produce thermoplastic polymeric bio-films. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that waste flours, derived from bakeries, pizzerias or pasta factories, have been proposed for the production of bio-polymers, as a replacement of neat starch. To this aim, durum waste flour derived from a pasta factory, soft waste flour derived from pizzerias and neat maize starch used as control material were firstly analyzed from dimensional, morphological and chemical points of view. Afterwards, waste flour films were produced by the addition of a nature-based plasticizer, glycerol. Mechanical characterization of the plasticized thermoplastic films, produced by compression moldi

SUBMITTER: Esposito Corcione C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7362212 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature