期刊
JOURNAL OF POLYMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
卷 29, 期 3, 页码 985-991出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10924-020-01933-2
关键词
Bioplastics; Contamination; Mechanical recycling
资金
- Stiftelsen AForsk
The study found that contaminating conventional plastics with biopolymers significantly affects their mechanical and thermal properties, with a reduction in elongation at break for HDPE and PP, and a loss of impact strength for PET even at 1% contamination.
The usage of bioplastics could increase in the future which may cause contamination of the waste streams of conventional plastics. The objective of this study was to investigate if a small amount of biopolymer contaminating conventional polymers would significantly affect mechanical and thermal properties. A starch-based plastic was first compounded by blending plasticised starch with PLA (polylactic acid). This polymer blend was subsequently compounded with HDPE (high density polyethylene), PP (polypropylene) or PET (polyethylene terephthalate) at 0%, 1% and 5% of the biopolymer. The compounds were characterised by tensile tests, Charpy impact tests, DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) and FESEM (field emission scanning electron microscopy). Tests showed that PE and PP were not significantly affected in terms of tensile strength and modulus but the elongation at break showed a strong reduction. PET was, on the other hand, incompatible with the starch-based plastic. Already at 1% contamination, PET had lost most of its impact strength.
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