Bio-Based Plastics Materials and Applications gives a detailed insight on the various applications and uses of bio-based plastics highlighting the significance of such materials for the future use, looking at and realizing the relevance of bio-materials in the future due to the adverse effects of the materials currently in use. It provides the readers with the required information on the bio-based plastics and the related aspects on the importance of such plastics in the present world. This book also discusses about introduction to bio-based plastics, plastics made of starch, cellulose acetate and its application, chitin and chitosan, arboform and its processing and lactic acids and lipids.