Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Book Chapter Book Chapter Faculty Publications- Book Chapter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fruit Waste as Sustainable Resources for Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production Subject The topic of the resource Biodegradability; Biopolymers; Downstream processing; Fruit waste; Polyhydroxyalkanoates Description An account of the resource Production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) using commercially available carbon sources like glucose or sucrose makes the bioprocess economically nonviable, thereby hindering its commercialization. As an alternative to this issue, inexpensive and easily available agro-industrial wastes are now being exploited as feedstock for PHA production. Fruit wastes are generally discarded as they are considered to be the non-product leftovers which do not have any economic value when compared with the cost of their collection and recovery steps for reuse. But through the use of appropriate technological applications, these wastes can be converted to valuable by-products, which can increase the value of the products much higher than the cost associated with recovery steps. By recycling and reprocessing the fruit wastes, they can be channeled into many applications, and thereby the amount of fruit wastes discharged into the environment can be completely reduced along with their detrimental effects. Large amounts of fruit wastes are produced by fruit-based industries. The waste products can be both solids and liquids, and these wastes are of high nutritional and biomass values for microorganism; thus their addition to waterbodies can make them highly polluted (high BOD or COD). These fruit-based wastes still have a promising potential for bioconversion into products of commercial importance or can be successfully exploited as cheap raw materials for industrial production of commercially important metabolites. This chapter deals with the strategies for production of PHA from fruit waste substrates, extraction and characterization of PHA, and their applications in diverse sectors. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Umesh M.; Sankar S.A.; Thazeem B. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bioplastics for Sustainable Development, pp. 205-229. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Singapore Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1823-9_7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1823-9_7</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130533861&amp;doi=10.1007%2F978-981-16-1823-9_7&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=7cdb767db52eb30d7564a9e0c0d574db" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130533861&amp;doi=10.1007%2f978-981-16-1823-9_7&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=7cdb767db52eb30d7564a9e0c0d574db</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISBN: 978-981161823-9; 978-981161822-2 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book chapter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Umesh M., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Sankar S.A., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Thazeem B., Vellalar Institutions (Maruthi Nagar Campus), Tamilnadu, Erode, India