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: Received: 26 July 2024 / Approved: 28 July 2024 / Online: 30 July 2024 (09:17:15 CEST)
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Wojciechowska, M.; Kowaluk, G. Challenges and Opportunities in Recycling Upholstery Textiles: Enhancing High-Density Fiberboards with Recycled Fibers. Preprints2024, 2024072220. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2220.v1
Wojciechowska, M.; Kowaluk, G. Challenges and Opportunities in Recycling Upholstery Textiles: Enhancing High-Density Fiberboards with Recycled Fibers. Preprints 2024, 2024072220. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2220.v1
Wojciechowska, M.; Kowaluk, G. Challenges and Opportunities in Recycling Upholstery Textiles: Enhancing High-Density Fiberboards with Recycled Fibers. Preprints2024, 2024072220. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2220.v1
APA Style
Wojciechowska, M., & Kowaluk, G. (2024). Challenges and Opportunities in Recycling Upholstery Textiles: Enhancing High-Density Fiberboards with Recycled Fibers. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2220.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Wojciechowska, M. and Grzegorz Kowaluk. 2024 "Challenges and Opportunities in Recycling Upholstery Textiles: Enhancing High-Density Fiberboards with Recycled Fibers" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2220.v1
Abstract
Recycling upholstery textiles is challenging due to the complexity of materials, which often include a mix of fabrics, foams, and adhesives that are difficult to separate. The intricate designs and layers in upholstered furniture make it labor-intensive and costly to dismantle for recycling. Additionally, contaminants like stains, finishes, and flame retardants complicate recycling. Despite these difficulties, recycling upholstery textiles is crucial to reducing landfill waste and conserving resources by reusing valuable materials. It also helps mitigate environmental pollution and carbon emissions associated with producing new textiles from virgin resources. The presented research aimed to establish the feasibility of incorporating textile fibers from waste artificial leather fibers from the upholstery furniture industry into the structure of high-density fiberboards. This approach positively contributes to carbon capture and storage (CCS) policy and mitigates the problem of such waste being sent to landfills. The research shows that while selected mechanical and physical parameters of the panels decrease with a rising content of recycled textile fibers, it is possible to meet proper European standard requirements by adjusting technological parameters such as nominal density.
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