The overdependence on petroleum-based plastics has resulted in very serious environmental issues, such as non-biodegradability, pollution, and depleting fossil fuel resources. It has also triggered a great need for the development of biodegradable materials from renewable sources. Agricultural crop residues such as corncob and rice straw are gen-erated in large amounts around the world but are not fully utilized. Instead, they are destroyed through burning in the environment. This has led to serious environmental issues, such as environmental pollution. On the other hand, corncob and rice straw are composed of high amounts of cellulose. Cellulose is a biodegradable biopolymer that can be ideally employed in the production of biodegradable films that are eco-friendly in nature. Cellulose was extracted from corncob as well as rice straw in order to produce biodegradable films in the future. Cellulose was purified through proper delig-nification, purification, and pre-treatment of plant materials in order to get very high- purity fibres of cellulose that are biodegradable in nature. Cellulose was processed into films through solution casting methods in order to produce bio-degradable films that are biodegradable in nature through the addition of biodegradable plasticisers in the solution. The biodegradable films had a smooth texture, high transparency, and high tensile the overdependence on petroleum-based plastics has resulted in very serious environmental issues such as non-biodegradability, pollution, and depleting fossil fuel resources. It has also triggered a great need for the development of biodegradable materials from renewable sources. Agricultural crop residues such as corncob and rice straw are generated in large amounts around the world but are not fully utilized. Instead, they are destroyed through burning in the environment. This has led to serious environmental issues, such as environmental pollution. On the other hand, corncob and rice straw are composed of high amounts of cellulose. Cel-lulose is a biodegradable biopolymer that can be ideally employed in the production of biodegradable films that are eco-friendly in nature. Cellulose was extracted from corncob as well as rice straw in order to produce biodegradable films in the future. Cellulose was purified through proper delignification, purification, and pre-treatment of plant materials in order to get very high-purity fibers of cellulose that are biodegradable in nature. Cellulose was processed into films through solution casting methods in order to produce biodegradable films that are biodegradable in nature through the addition of biodegradable plasticizers in the solution. The biodegradable films had a smooth texture, high transparency, and high tensile strength.

Cellulose, Lignin, Agricultural Waste, Environment, Biodegradable, Delignification