“…Among them, cellulose acetate (CA) which is a non-toxic, low-cost, low-flammable, biodegradable polymer that has the capacity of producing transparent films, having a high commercial (Cerqueira, Rodrigues Filho, Carvalho & Valente, 2010) and environmental importance. Its application ranges from textile threads and photographic films to pharmaceutical capsules or covering, membranes and mostly as cigarette filters (Brum et al, 2012;Senna, Menezes & Botaro, 2013). CA can be synthesized from the most diverse sources, including residues, as sugarcane bagasse (Cerqueira et al, 2010;Shaikh, Pandare, Nair & Varma, 2009), rice husk (Biswas et al, 2006;Fan et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2013), sugar cane straw (Candido & Gonçalves, 2016), bean straw (Brum et al, 2012), mango seed (Cruz et al, 2011), among others.…”