Plastic is a synthetic biopolymer which possess many attractive properties because of which it has become one of the most prominent products used nowadays. Despite of such undeniable positive effects of plastic on our lives, it still has several disadvantages. In the current project, an effort has been carried out to fight with such flaws by the replacement of such conventional plastics with that of biodegradable plastic. In the current study the potential and easily available bacteria were isolated from different localities and the strains potential for the production of PHB were selected for further studies. Most of the potential isolates were found to be Bacilli. The optimum growth and maximum PHB accumulation by isolate MDC happened at 72 h with sugarcane bagasse. Pre-treated sugarcane bagasse was a better carbon source as compared to the general production media. Biopolymer produced was confirmed by FTIR.
