Polymer industry fossil fuels depletion

Recent developments in the field of polymer nanocomposites offer a great interest in the demand of sustainable polymer nanocomposites. Depletion of fossil fuel stock and plastic waste has become critical issues in recent years. Since the twentieth century, the tremendous development of polymer materials at the industrial level has accelerated the increasing exploitation of raw materials extracted from fossil fuel or as byproducts. Indeed, the total quantity of polymers produced from fossil fuel in the first decade of the twenty-first century is even greater than that combined in the previous 100 years (MtiUiaupt, 2013 Sinha Ray and Bousmina, 2005). Such drastically increased production of plastic components inevitably raises environmental concerns within the public. It is thus clear that urgent action needs to be taken to produce non-petrobased polymers with good environmental sustainability and renewability. 

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