Abstract
In order to extend the utilization of rice hull (RH) and the recycled plastic resins made from fishing nets, which have been drifted ashore on the coats, mechanical behavior for the composites of the resin and RH was analyzed. Fourier transformed infrared spectrometry (FTIR) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements revealed that the fishing nets used in this study were composed of polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) materials. Results of the tensile and bending tests means that the composite of the recycled resin became more brittle by adding the RH. The tensile and bending elastic modulus of the composites increased with RH content, while the breaking stress and the degree of elongation in both tests decreased. It was found that decreasing rate of the breaking stress was reduced by the RH with the size less than 177 μm.
