Preface -- Promising Agro-Wastes for Food Packaging 1 L. Susmita Devi, Avik Mukherjee and Santosh Kumar -- 2 Natural Fiber--Based Composite for Food Packaging 33 Rishika Bora, Hemanta Chutia, Monika, Murchana Changmai, Charu Lata Mahanta, Vimal Katiyar and Tabli Ghosh -- 3 Corncob Waste for Food Packaging 69 Antony Catherine Flora Louis and Sivakumar Venkatachalam -- 4 Coir Fibers for Sustainable Food Packaging 91 Sweety Kalita, Manashi Das Purkayastha, Avik Mukherjee and Santosh Kumar -- 5 Sugarcane Bagasse for Sustainable Food Packaging 115 Sweety Kalita, Avik Mukherjee and Santosh Kumar -- 6 Husk and Straw of Cereals Grains for Sustainable Food Packaging 153 Pooja Baiju, Maria Jose Mukkadan and Preetha Radhakrishnan -- 7 Sericulture Waste for Edible Films and Coating of Fruits and Vegetables 187 Sweety Kalita, Avik Mukherjee and Santosh Kumar -- 8 Functional Agents from Agro-Waste for Active and Intelligent Food Packaging 205 Lokesh Kumar, Ram Kumar Deshmukh and Kirtiraj K. Gaikwad -- 9 Starch from Agro-Waste for Food Packaging Applications 241 Shashank T. Mhaske, Jyoti Darsan Mohanty and Pavan Y. Borse -- 10 Chitosan from Agro-Waste for Food Packaging Applications 267 Mekala Pavani, Sushil Kumar Singh and Poonam Singha -- 11 Biodegradable Synthetic Poly(Lactic Acid) (PLA) for Food Packaging Application 295 Shikha Sharma, Tabli Ghosh, Neha Mulchandani and Vimal Katiyar -- 12 Pectin from Agro-Waste Residues for Food Packaging 319 Kona Mondal and Vimal Katiyar -- 13 Cellulosic Nanomaterials and Its Derivatives from Agro-Waste for Food Packaging Applications 349 Rahul Ranjan, Rohit Rai, Vikash Kumar, Smruti B. Bhatt and Prodyut Dhar -- 14 Biodegradability of Biopolymers 389 Anamika Nayak and Debjani Dutta -- 15 Migration Concerns of Biopolymer-Based Food Packaging 421 Vikramsingh Thakur and Bhabani K. Satapathy -- References -- Index.