Circular Economy Solutions: The Role of Thermoplastic Waste in Material Innovation

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(2), P. 764 - 764

Published: Jan. 19, 2025

Plastics play an indispensable role in modern society, yet their long-term durability poses severe environmental challenges, with mismanaged waste polluting ecosystems worldwide. The transition to a circular economy emphasizes the importance of recycling and resource recovery mitigate these impacts. While conventional disposal methods like mechanical chemical or incineration face limitations such as quality degradation, high costs, pollutant emissions, value-added approaches present innovative solution. This review explores potential integrating recycled plastic into composite materials enhance performance sustainability. Focusing on diverse strategies, paper highlights use plastics combination fibers, wood, metal, concrete, glass, rubber, textiles, foam. These composites demonstrate superior mechanical, thermal, properties, enabling applications across industries construction, automotive, aerospace, furniture. Furthermore, various roles waste—such filler, reinforcement, matrix, additive—are analyzed showcase advancements material innovation. By presenting methodologies outcomes from recent research, this underscores creating high-performance materials, supporting sustainable development economic goals.

Language: Английский

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Comprehensive Review of Geotechnical Engineering Properties of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Fibers and Strips for Soil Stabilization

Polymers, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(13), P. 1764 - 1764

Published: June 21, 2024

The waste management of plastic has become a pressing environmental issue, with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) being one the major contributors. To address this challenge, utilization recycled PET fibers and strips in geotechnical engineering applications for soil stabilization gained considerable attention. This review aims to provide comprehensive study properties recycled-PET-reinforced soils. examines various factors influencing performance PET-reinforced soils, including percent content, fiber length, aspect ratio. It evaluates mechanical properties, like shear strength, compressibility, bearing capacity, hydraulic behavior, durability findings reveal reinforcement enhances reduces settlement, increases capacity stability soil. However, it is observed that incorporation does not lead significant impact on dry density Finally, an cost comparison analysis was conducted. serves as valuable resource researchers, engineers, practitioners involved field, offering insights into soils outlining future research directions maximize their effectiveness sustainability.

Language: Английский

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Investigation of Plastic-Sand Paving Blocks: A Sustainable Solution Using Recycled Plastic Waste.

Hybrid Advances, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100492 - 100492

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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