Reinforcement of Recycled Waste PET Plastic with Sisal Fiber
The norms nowadays is that nearly all the domestic packaging is done with the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics bottles which has led to rapid increase in the production of waste PET bottles.These waste ends up in the landfills thus polluting the environment.To diminish this predicament, the waste PET bottles can be burned, reused or recycled into other products.Burning causes emission of toxic fumes while due to contaminations, reuse may not be attractive option therefore recycling into different products is more appealing.One of the recycled products that can be manufactured is composite materials.In this study,sisal fiber has been used to reinforce the recycled waste PET to manufacture a composite material to use for diverse purposes.From the tests, the strength and energy absorbing property of the waste PET was increased with the addition of the sisal fiber enabling it to be used for load bearing composites applications.By using waste PET bottles, environmental protection will be achieved while the use of locally available sisal fiber will result in the manufacture of a cheaper but effective composite.
PET waste bottles sisal fiber composites
Rotich K Gideon Machanje I Doreen
Department of Textile Chemistry, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar Un Department of Manufacturing, Industrial and Textile Engineering, Moi University, Kenya
国际会议
2016 Sino-Africa International Symposium on Textiles and Apparel (SAISTA2016)(2016中非纺织服装国际论坛)
蒙巴萨
英文
319-325
2016-08-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）