Morphology/performance relationship of pristine and recycled PP/PE blends

CAREN ROSALES; MARIA ALEJANDRA COSTANTINO; VALERIA PETTARIN; CELINA BERNAL; GUIDO PALAZZO; REGIANE DEFACIO DUTRA

Mar del Plata

Simposio; XVI Latin-American Polymer Symposium (SLAP 2018), XIV Iberoamerican Polymer Congress (CIP 2018); 2018

One of the big challenges of recycling engineering of thermoplastics is to manufacture competitive pieces or products in terms of mechanical properties such as toughness or strength. Improved mechanical performance of recycled materials widens their application field (1,2). One of the strategies to improve PE/PP blends performance is to add special compatibilizers. The aim of present work is to obtainrecycled PE/PP blends from industrial wastes whith similar properties to those of virgin PE/PP blends.