Residues and by-products are the unavoidable outputs of cereal, sugarcane and dairy processing industry which can be resorted economically. Widespread focus on plastic replacement, residue burning and waste reduction had led to characterization and identification of by-products for economic packaging applications. Extensive research work had been done on whey usage in eco-friendly packaging but packaging applications of cereal crop residues, cereal milling by-products and sugarcane bagasse are still in nascent stage. However, research studies on extraction and exploitation of cellulose, hemicellulose and other film forming components from these by-products had been reported for packaging applications but described processes have low techno-commerciality. Current status and innovations in utilization of cereal residue (rice straw, wheat straw and corn cob), cereal milling by-products (husk, hull and bran), sugarcane processing waste (bagasse and sugar beet pulp) and whey based packaging applications as well as application in bio-composites, are discussed briefly in this review.

残留物和副产品是谷物，甘蔗和乳制品加工业的不可避免的产出，可以通过经济手段加以利用。对塑料替代，残渣燃烧和废物减少的广泛关注导致对用于经济包装应用的副产品进行表征和鉴定。关于在环保包装中使用乳清的方法，已经进行了广泛的研究工作，但谷物残留物，谷物碾磨副产品和甘蔗渣的包装应用仍处于起步阶段。然而，已经报道了从这些副产物中提取和开发纤维素，半纤维素和其他成膜成分的研究，用于包装应用，但是描述了该工艺的商业技术性很低。谷物残留物（稻草，