Polymeric materials obtained from petroleum resources are nonbiodegradable. Defying degradation, they damage the environment as a result of their ending up in the landfills. Synthesized biodegradable polymeric materials (BPMs) have received increasing interest owing to the difficulty in procuring reproducibility when using natural polymeric materials. Through the modification of natural polymeric materials or materials via chemical, microbiological, enzyme-mediated, and chemo-enzymatic synthesis, a comprehensive range of variegated BPMs can be reaped.

Introduction; Background priciples; Coordination geometries of schiff -base metal complexes; Recent studies of (Salen) MX-Catalyzed copolymerization processes; Summary

Classification and development; Materials for production of biodegradable polymers; Properties and mechanisms of degradation; Industrial applications

Standards and policies: Science and standards, biodegradability and compostability, study of the aerobic biodegrability of plasticmaerials under controlled compost; environmentally degradable plastics and ics-unido global program, biodegradable plastics, market introduction of compostable packaging; Biobased systems; Biodegradable hybrid polymeric materials based on lignin and synthetic polymers, production and applications of microbial polyhhydroxyalkanoates, the solid-state structure, thermal and crystalline properties of bacterial copolyesters of (R)-3-hydroxybutyric acid with (R)-3- hydroxyhexanoic acid, biodased polymeric materials for agriculture applecations; Biomedical applications: Hydrophilic/hdrophobic copolymers

Introduction to sustainability; Environmental issues; life cycle information; biobased and biodegradable polymers; biobased and recycled petroleum-based plastics; end-of-life options for plastics; sustainable plastic products; biobased and biodegradation standards fof polumeric materials; sustainable strategies for plastics companies; future of sustainable plastics.