Eco-friendly PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging

From a statistics accounted in 1999, 48% of plastic bottle that used is made from PET. Among them a huge percentage are end up as garbage and caused the landfills. This toxic waste pollutes our subsurface water label through leaching. PLA is a strong candidate to substitute conventional petrol...

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Main Authors: Anuar, Hazleen, Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul, Fuad, Faizah, Ahmad, Zuraida
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/6770/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/6770/1/Poster_MTE_-_PLA-kenaf-R3.pdf
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author Anuar, Hazleen
Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul
Fuad, Faizah
Ahmad, Zuraida
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description From a statistics accounted in 1999, 48% of plastic bottle that used is made from PET. Among them a huge percentage are end up as garbage and caused the landfills. This toxic waste pollutes our subsurface water label through leaching. PLA is a strong candidate to substitute conventional petroleum based polymer. Kenaf fiber was added to reduce the cost as well as to increase properties. The mechanical and thermal properties shows that PLA-Kenaf biocomposite shows better properties than conventional food packaging polymer.
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spelling iium-67702011-11-29T06:22:54Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6770/ Eco-friendly PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging Anuar, Hazleen Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul Fuad, Faizah Ahmad, Zuraida TS195 Packaging From a statistics accounted in 1999, 48% of plastic bottle that used is made from PET. Among them a huge percentage are end up as garbage and caused the landfills. This toxic waste pollutes our subsurface water label through leaching. PLA is a strong candidate to substitute conventional petroleum based polymer. Kenaf fiber was added to reduce the cost as well as to increase properties. The mechanical and thermal properties shows that PLA-Kenaf biocomposite shows better properties than conventional food packaging polymer. 2011-02-17 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6770/1/Poster_MTE_-_PLA-kenaf-R3.pdf Anuar, Hazleen and Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul and Fuad, Faizah and Ahmad, Zuraida (2011) Eco-friendly PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging. In: Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE 2011), 17-19 February 2011, KLCC. (Unpublished) http://mte.org.my/mte2011/index.php
spellingShingle TS195 Packaging
Anuar, Hazleen
Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul
Fuad, Faizah
Ahmad, Zuraida
Eco-friendly PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging
title Eco-friendly PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging
title_full Eco-friendly PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging
title_fullStr Eco-friendly PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging
title_full_unstemmed Eco-friendly PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging
title_short Eco-friendly PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging
title_sort eco-friendly pla-kenaf fibre biocomposite for food packaging
topic TS195 Packaging
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/6770/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/6770/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/6770/1/Poster_MTE_-_PLA-kenaf-R3.pdf