A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON A SUITABLE MATERIAL FOR MAKING BIOPLASTICS

INTRODUCTION

A bioplastic is a great alternative for traditional plastic that we are using everyday due to its beneficial factors that can be great help to reduce the pollution to our environment. One of its benefit to the environment was its decomposing time period which only takes months to biodegrade due to the fact that it is made from a renewable material that was called biobased. In this way we can reduce the production of traditional plastics that was made by fossil fuels that's causing the contamination of the planet.

This study was conducted in order to observe the possibilities of  better production of renewable materials with different variables for making bioplastics. The variables that we're experimenting was about the starches which were the potato starch, cassava starch and kamote starch. This research was conducted by three researcher with their respective variables each to compare each test with control group variable which is cornstarch. There two hypothesis in this study which were null hypothesis (Ho): There are no significant differences between the entities in making bioplastics and alternative hypothesis (Ha): There significant differences between the entities in making bioplastics.

The coverage of this research was both qualitative and qualitative analysis. The qualitative analysis covers up the observation of physical properties of the products  such as their texture, appearance, odor and flexibility. On the other hand, the quantitative analysis was the study of particular tests such as tensile test, water solubility test, test for moisture content and density test. The resulting data of the quantitative test will then be used for statistical analysis that will be tabulated on excel to compute for the p-value of each variable that will be then compared to the  alpha level which is 5% or 0.05 to determined the hypothesis of the conducted tests.