In recent years, the textile industry has taken a growing interest in developing a system for recycling waste fibers which result from the process of manufacturing products with the goals of protecting the environment and saving energy. In this paper, the material recyclability of cut waste of cotton/polyester mixed cloth as a molding material of plastic injection molding process was investigated. The cut waste was also used as a matrix material for fiber reinforced composites.
To avoid the disadvantage of cotton for the tensile properties of molded specimens, the waste cord of polyester or nylon6 fabrics was fed directly into the injection machine together with the cut waste of cotton/polyester mixed cloth. Namely, the weight fraction of cotton in the molded specimen was decreased with increasing polyester or nylon6. For the purpose of molding the composite materials, continuous glass fiber bundles were fed into the injection machine together with the cut waste of cotton/polyester mixed cloth.
The tensile strength and modulus of molded specimens were discussed based on SEM observation results of fracture surface. Moreover, the sharpy impact value was measured for various specimens.
Apart from a large variation in metering time data, the experiments indicate that cut waste of cotton/polyester mixed cloth can be fed automatically into the injection machine. The increasing of tensile strength, modulus and shrpy impact value could be achieved by decreasing the weight fraction of cotton or by increasing the weight fraction of glass fiber.
The results suggest that the injection molding method described herein shows promise for contributing toward the material recycling of cut waste of cotton/polyester mixed cloth.
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