Industrial growth, urbanisation, wrong agricultural practices etc. are responsible for pollution and loss of environmental quality. Nature's built-in mechanisms and self regulation ability can not tackle novel pollutants since nature is unfamiliar to it. We will have to remain in tune with the nature and exploit its balancing capacities to ultimately make our environment comfortable. Making ecofriendly products is a part of this process. Bioplastics is one such reality which can help us to overcome the problem of pollution caused by plastics. Bioplastics can be used for manufacture of variety of containers , articles and packaging material which otherwise are produced using non-degradable plastics. There is a lot of research going on to develop bioplastics which can economically replace conventional plastics. This article gives an overview of the fast developing area of bioplastics.
