Abstract
More than 550,000 m3 of glycerol were generated in Brazil in 2022, as a by-product of the biodiesel industry, due to the growing legal demand for its addition to diesel. A very useful application for glycerol in the bioeconomy and circular economy scenario would be the production of bioplastics, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) - biodegradable and biocompatible bacterial polyesters, wh…