Sustainable development of natural rubber and its environmentally friendly composites

Natural rubber (NR) is well known as renewable biobased polymer that has been widely used in a wide variety of applications ranging from ordinary household to aerospace products. To meet the complete concept of green growth and sustainable development, the uses of nontoxic chemicals and green fillers alternating to conventional fillers are necessary to be concerned. In this article, we provide up-to-date information on the sustainable development of NR including NR latex production with low ammonia/nonammonia system and the usage of effective curing activator and biobased processing oil. Moreover, the issue of the environmentally friendly green NR composites is described here with using renewable biomass organic fillers derived from plants and animals such as cellulose and chitin.