BANANA PSEUDO-STEM HITS VARIOUS SPOTS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Banana is one of the most well-known and useful plants in the world. Almost all the parts of this plant, that are, fruit, leaves, flower bud, trunk, and pseudo-stem, can be utilized. The exploitation of banana pseudo stem as a source for bioethanol production from the sugars released due to different chemical and biological pretreatments, fiber extraction with the help of pectinases, production of activated carbon as electrode materials for supercapacitors and biosynthesis of metallic nanoparticles. Several potential applications of the pseudo stem are mentioned, such as the use of this fiber to fabricate rope, placemats, paper cardboard, string thread, tea bags, high-quality textile materials, absorbent, polymer/fiber composites, etc discussed in this paper