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Particularly illuminating is the environmental degradation produced by plastics, which includes altered carbon dioxide cycles, difficulties with composting, and increased emissions of harmful substances. Recycling and creating biodegradable plastics when they are no longer needed are two techniques for finding solutions. Our innovative technique involves turning waste materials like clam, crab, and prawn shells into bioplastic called “shellstanable bioplastic”. To produce chitosan, the waste material is dried, demineralized, deproteinized, and deacetylated. To make bioplastic, the resultant chitosan is combined with glycerol, acetic acid, and water. The resultant bioplastic possesses the following characteristics: 36% moisture content, 95% water absorption, 67% water solubility, 58% alcohol solubility, and 81% biodegradability. This proves that the resulting bioplastic, which has the potential to be commercialized and decomposes quite easily, can replace plastic derived from petroleum.