With the rising era of agro-based industry in India, waste associated with these industries also increasing rapidly. The supply chain including production, preparation, processing, distribution, and consumption drastically produces a large volume of waste, so further utilization of this waste is a necessity. In addition to this, the graph of plastic packaging usage is already a headline in India. Even after the restriction, petroleum-based plastic packaging is still a member of every Indian house and used by almost every shopkeeper, because plastic has good mechanical strength and barrier properties along with this the cost is quite low. However, underestimating the problems associated with plastic packaging like soil pollution, air pollution due to burning, water pollution, which affects marine life, etc., would cause a serious threat to the environment hence; alternatives for plastic packaging should be made to save our environment. By utilizing the waste material for making a biodegradable packaging film can consider as a good option as it might be cost-effective and low graded shopkeepers can also afford it, but to make it more successful, its mechanical strength needs to be good. Cellulose nanofibers (CNF) based sources have proved in researches that it can increase the mechanical properties of any biofilm. Research article based on nanocomposites made of banana starch incorporating banana peel CNF results in a good tensile strength (11.1MPa) compared with other bio-based films such as mango peel film (2.85MPa), banana peel with 4% corn starch film (3.47 MPa), corn starch film (3.59MPa), potato starch film (4.87MPa), pea peel film (5.96MPa). The waste associated with pea peel and the banana peel is very high and can be found at zero cost. The review paper aims to study packaging materials, nutritional properties of banana peel, pea peel and to this, preparation of biodegradable packaging film which could reduce the problems of plastic.
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