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Recycling Pet (Polyethylene Terephthalate) Soda Bottle Wastes To Produce Carpet Fibers, Sherry Halim Yacoub
Recycling Pet (Polyethylene Terephthalate) Soda Bottle Wastes To Produce Carpet Fibers, Sherry Halim Yacoub
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The problem of plastics wastes has increased tremendously since the use of plastics increased in more than one application increasing in return the amount of wastes. The possible ways for handling these wastes include landfilling, reusing through chemical recycling techniques, mechanical recycling and reprocessing into a new product, or finally incineration to get energy out of it . In Egypt, recycling takes place for a number of plastic items, but no recycling efforts are yet established for the PET plastic bottles used for soda beverages. It is the concern of this thesis therefore, to find a solution for these unused …