Paper Title
Sustainable Active Paper Packaging based Vegetable Waste Containing Green Synthesized Nanosilver

Abstract
Use of active packaging has attracted greater attention over recent years to prevent and decrease risk of bacterial infection. The aim of this work is to develop active packaging using wastes of paper and vegetable to produce active packaging by coating with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The bio-reducing agents such as starch and obtained extracted vegetable waste pulp were used in the green synthesis of AgNPs. The best reaction time was found at 90 minutes. Effects of different silver nitrate concentrations on green synthesis of AgNPs and coated paper properties were also investigated. The coated paper with 100 mM silver nitrate (AgNPs-100) had a hydrophobic surface and antibacterial activities for Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Tensile strength of the coated paper with AgNPs-100 increased up to 8.91% when compared to uncoated paper. Based on the results, the obtained paper coated with AgNPs proved to be suitable for use as active packaging material. Keywords - Coating, Green Synthesis, Vegetable Pulp, Silver Nanoparticles