RECYCLING PLASTIC BOTTLE (PET) to SYNTHETIC FIBER

Now a day are facing environment protection problems. Many things which are invented for our luxurious life are responsible for polluting environment due to improper waste management technique. One of them is a plastic which has to be disposed or recycled properly to maintain the beauty of our nature. On the other hand, urbanization growth will increase rubbish especially non-renewable ones. Eco friendly architectural principles are being incorporated into more buildings every day in the world but they are still out of reach of many people due to lack of knowledge and awareness. In this study is to explore the possibility of recycling a plastic bottles waste material. To address this issue the fibers from used plastics were added in various percentages in the M25 grade concrete. An experimental work has been carried out on the specimen's cubes which were casted in the laboratory and their behavior under the test was observed. The plastic fibers were added from 0.0% to 3.0%. The compressive strengths of concrete were determined after 28 days of curing period and compared with control concrete. Experiments done shows increase in compressive strength by 12%. Plastic bottle fibre additive can be adopted. The plastic bottle fibre reduces the quantity of industry fibers used in concrete and also plastic bottle fibre is proved to be more economical.

International Journal on Design and Manufacturing Technologies, 2008

PET Bottles are finding more and more applications in disposable packaging mainly in beverage segment. As on today not only cola companies are using PET bottles but also fruit juice, mineral water and liquor industries have accepted PET bottles for packaging of their product. The transparent polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles have become increasingly common and are used for mineral water, soda waters and soft drinks. These bottles are of-course, very user friendly but environmental hazards are associated with PET Bottles. Huge consumption of these commodities causes volumetrically large PET wastage on daily basis. They contribute a large part in urban garbage. In this paper, an effort has been made to recognize the possible application of waste PET bottles for manufacturing of composite panel for economically feasible architectural and building applications.

InTech eBooks, 2018

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles have increasingly become an indispensable part of a common man's life. With the phenomenal increase in plastic consumption the problems with plastic waste disposal have also aggravated. Our voracious appetite for PET bottles coupled with the undeniable behavioral propensity of increasingly over consuming, discarding, littering and thereby polluting the natural environment makes it a lethal combination. Hence the need arises to route the waste plastic bottles to their optimum usage. That is why utilization of waste PET bottles has become an attractive alternative for disposal. This review paper reports the properties of concrete when waste PET bottles are used in fiber form as aggregates in reinforced plain concrete. The aim of the paper is to analyze and study the different experiments, case studies based on researches and experimental works and scientific reports to determine the improvement in selected properties of PET fiber reinforced concrete. Also to convey that the use of PET fibers as reinforcement of cement composites is a promising technique for developing sustainable materials to be applied in the civil construction industry. And hence concrete with waste PET bottle fiber can be used not only as an effective plastic waste management practice but also as a strategy to produce more economic and sustainable building materials in the future.

Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials

Growing industrialization and population deposit huge amounts of waste materials into nature every day. Environmental pollution is the biggest threat to life on earth, and one of the major polluters of nature is the throwaway plastic bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a harmful fossil fuel/petroleum-based material. This review focuses on the recent development of recycling techniques of PET waste and their potential applications including fiber production, nanofibrous membrane, air filtering materials, water filtering materials, reinforced concrete formation, energy harvesting etc. In addition, the two most promising methods for recycling: chemical recycling and mechanical recycling are discussed. The most appropriate technologies and waste disposal procedures are suggested for energy harvesting based on the socio-economic aspects of the problem. The recent progress of this topic has been discussed. The prospect of these recycled bottles has been mentioned at the en...

2015

One of the main disadvantages in constructing houses is high cost of the building. High cost is primary requirement for constructing the house in places where people are below poverty line, is becoming one of the most significant problem of peoples. On the other hand, urbanization growth will increase rubbish especially non-renewable ones. Eco friendly architectural principles are being incorporated into more buildings every day in the world but they are still out of reach of many people due to lack of knowledge and awareness. In this paper we implemented strategies and systems based on Eco-friendly environment that could still be built at very low costs, with waste materials that is plastic bottle, providing adequate thermal comfort while being sustainable. At the end, it concluded that in different factors such as time of execution, load capacity, flexibility, reducing waste, cost and energy efficiency, plastic bottles can be more effective compared to some conventional building m...

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale

The valorization of local by-products in the manufacture of a new range of sand concrete and the improvement of their properties, will lead to seek an arrangement between performance and cost in order to achieve a resistant material. Waste recycling affects two very important affect namely the environmental impact and the economic impact. The main objective of our work is to contribute to optimize the formulation of sand concrete as part of the recovery of waste, which is harmful to the environment given its bulky and unattractive nature, it is waste plastic. Most PET bottles become waste after use, causing environmental problems. To solve this problem, a method for recycling PET bottles as fibers to strengthen concrete is proposed. Two types of plastic waste are added to sand concrete; the first concerns the recycling of post-consumer bottles in PET, in the form of polyester fiber supplied by the company RET-PLAST and the second type concerns the packaging belts made of polyethylen...