Elaboración de planchas celu-plásticas a través del reciclaje de celulosa residual y tereftalato de polietileno (pet).

Abstract

In San Miguel, located in the Bolivar Province, Ecuador, the principal source of incomes comes from agricultural activities causing a great deal of vegetables wastes which are not adequately eliminated, considering as well, other great quantity of plastic wastes derived from the mass produced consumer products which elevate the levels of contaminations. With the purpose of presenting a new commodity with better qualities which may substitute the timber, and can diminish the levels of pollution, the authors of this paper manufactured a kind of plastic timber using the mixture of cellulose and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) which are exposed to intensive heat generating, as a result, a cellulose plastic plate more flexible and weather resistant able to be used in the construction industry.