Post-consumer PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles have been recycled into fiber and sheet products ever since the Containers and Packing Recycling Law came into effect in 1997. There has been a growing need, however, for a chemical recycling process. In this process, post-consumer PET bottles are recycled into monomers that can be used as feed stocks for the recycled production of PET bott...

Polymer concrete (PC) is a composite construction material that boasts several advantages, such as lightness, low water permeability, high resistance to corrosive environments, and chemical degradation. Consequently, it has recently attracted interest an alternative the traditional ones for civil applications. In this study, unsaturated polyester resin was considered matrix phase of PC. Aimed p...

Abstract Photochromic and photoluminescent clothes can be described as smart textiles that alter their color emission spectra upon exposure to a light stimulus. Recycled nonwoven polyester fabrics screen-printed with rare-earth strontium aluminate nanoparticles were developed introduce photochromic properties. Both spinning preparation of fibrous mat was performed industrially starting from rec...

in this study, the possibility of producing wood-plastic panels was studied using two different blending methods including melt blend and dry blend. wood-plastic panels were made from recycled high density polyethylene (as resin) and mdf waste (as natural fiber) at 60, 70 and 80% by weight filler loading. nominal density and dimensions of the panels were 1g/cm3 and 35×35×1 cm, respectively. the...