Recycled Plastic Fibers In Concrete

Broadens readers understanding of the reprocessing of polyolefin waste reviews in detail key recent research into macro plastic fibre reinforced concrete offers key insights into the mechanical properties alkali resistance and reinforcing effects of recycled polypropylene fibre in concrete addresses the environmental assessment of using recycled polypropylene fibre to replace virgin.

Recycled plastic fibers in concrete.

With an aim to encourage recycling of plastic wastes our research has produced 100 recycled pp fibers for reinforcing concrete. One of the biggest challenges with recycling is plastic. Furthermore the morphology of concrete containing plastic materials is described in this paper to explain the influence of plastic aggregates and plastic fibers on the properties of concrete. Gu and ozbakkaloglu conducted an extensive review of the utilization of recycled plastics in concrete from the standpoint of plastic fine aggregate plastic coarse aggregate and plastic fibers.

Recycled fibers considered in this study are produced by mechanical recycling of industrial plastic wastes such as off cuts and off specification items from diaper industries. The recycled plastic also has obvious environmental advantages over using virgin plastic fibres the concrete was reinforced using recycled polypropylene plastic instead and strength and durability tests show that the end result could be used to build footpaths and precast elements such as drainage pits and concrete sleepers. There s not much of a market for scrap plastic so the profit margins on processing and reselling it are slim.