Effect of variation in recycled e-waste reinforcement on mechanical behaviour of polymer matrix composites

Abstract

The electronic products has grabbed the major role in this century. These products has made our life comfortable as well as luxurious. The overuse of these product leads to make them unserviceable ultimately results into the scrap material. The major part of these e-waste is coming from the printed circuit boards (PCB) and polymer cabinets. E-waste is having lot of heavy metals which are extremely harmful for the ecosystem. Thus there is an urgent need of promising solution to mitigate the problem of e-waste generation. The recycling of e-waste not only reduced the use of virgin resources but also helps to reduce environmental pollution. This paper states about the utilization of PCB in the ash form as a reinforcement in LDPE polymer matrix for the composite fabrication. The hot press machine is exclusively used for the fabrication purpose. The process involved the variation of various percentage of e-waste ash. In this study we have evaluated different mechanical properties such as tensile strength, compression strength and hardness for different percentage of PCB ash.