Recoverable composite material made of thermoplastic waste combined with organic fibres

Author

Jilkén, Leif

Author_Institution

Dept. of Technol., Kalmar Univ., Sweden

fYear

1999

fDate

1-3 Feb 1999

Firstpage

555

Lastpage

557

Abstract

By adding organic fibres, with mixed unwashed recycled thermoplastics, a material composite named Polywood is produced. The composite granulate can be used in different plastics machines. The paper gives different examples of Eco-designs made of Polywood. Manufacturing commercially saleable products from unwashed recycled thermoplastics has been very restricted. Polywood, the Eco-material can be handled like wood, it is nailable and so on. The new composite material has good rot-resistance etc. Products made of Polywood are as a whole recoverable, a couple of times, at last the energy from the material can be used

Keywords

composite materials; design for environment; plastics; recycling; Eco-designs; Eco-material; Polywood; commercially saleable products; mixed unwashed recycled thermoplastics; organic fibres; recoverable composite material; rot-resistance; thermoplastic waste; Capacitive sensors; Composite materials; Ducts; Heat recovery; Manufacturing processes; Organic materials; Plastics; Polyethylene; Programmable logic arrays; Recycling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 1999. Proceedings. EcoDesign '99: First International Symposium On

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0007-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.1999.747673

Filename

747673