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Sustainable Green-Based Composites from Renewable Resources in Textile: Industrial Cotton Wastes

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Cotton is the most generally used fiber in the textile industry and it is utilized in all areas of textiles. The amount of cotton production is approximately four to five million tons annually on a global scale.

Waste cotton fibers can be reused even after being disposed of. In the apparel industry, a large majority of cotton wastes are recovered as recycled yarns. However, waste cotton fıbers with the dimensions of 0.10 and 0.50 mm is not processed for the manufacturing of recycled yarns.

Nowadays, the field of development of composite from cotton waste paved a way for increased research studies because of the properties of cotton waste such as cost-effective, profitable, reusable, renewable, environmentally friendly, and sustainable.

In this study, between ~0.10 and ~0.50 mm in length of cotton waste fiber is obtained from the recycling yarn factory. Five percent, 10%, and 15% different ratios of cotton waste in recycled polypropylene (r-PP) were blended. The blends were produced by the twin-screw extruder. The composites were tested in terms of mechanical properties (tensile strength, elongation, yield strength, Izod impact strength, and elasticity modules), Melt Flow Index (MFI), Vicat softening point temperature, and hardness.

Results of cotton waste/recycled polypropylene composites which is shown an increasing cotton waste percentages are evolved mechanical properties, especially elasticity modules.

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Kocak, E.D., Tasdemir, M., Gul, C. (2020). Sustainable Green-Based Composites from Renewable Resources in Textile: Industrial Cotton Wastes. In: Muthu, S.S., Gardetti, M.A. (eds) Sustainability in the Textile and Apparel Industries. Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38013-7_3

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