**7. Applications**

Commercialisation of thermoplastic starch and starch-based polymers has been progressing. Due to the inherent biodegradability of starch materials they are allied mostly to packaging as films or sheet that can be subsequentially shaped by thermoforming into custom packaging requirements. Starch are most suited for packaging of dry products., otherwise there will be a diffusion transfer and equilibrium established between the TPS package and its contents. TPS foams are suited for damping impacts to protect fragile products. TPS solve the issue of disposal of packaging materials because they are biodegradable into environmentally friendly fragments, depending on the nature of non-starch components of TPS compositions.

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