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Wood Plastic Composite: Emerging Material for an Environmental Safety—A Review

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Nowadays, main concern of our society is to recycle the plastic products. So as to overcome this issue, a new material named as ‘Wood Plastic Composite’ is emerging in the market. Some of the good characteristics of this material are biodegradability, recyclability, low manufacturing cost, high chemical resistivity, high strength to weight proportion, fire resistance, and high stiffness to weight proportion. Wood Plastic Composite is the better substitution for ‘pure wood’ and ‘pure plastics’ therefore find application in various fields like—aeroplane, automotive, electrical, sports, packaging, furnitures, decking, fencing, landscaping, ceiling, room partition, etc. Wood Plastic Composite is an eco-friendly material which also reduces the exhaustion of petroleum resources and also reduces the emission of CO2. This paper presents various types of reinforcements and various types of matrix that could be used to make number of combinations for building Wood Plastic Composite. Various manufacturing techniques are also discussed in this paper. Remarkable contribution of various authors in this field are also illustrated. It was concluded that recycled wood and recycled plastics both could be used to form a Wood Plastic Composite material which will going to reduce many environmental issues.

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Dwivedi, N., Khare, A.P., Haq, S. (2021). Wood Plastic Composite: Emerging Material for an Environmental Safety—A Review. In: Baredar, P.V., Tangellapalli, S., Solanki, C.S. (eds) Advances in Clean Energy Technologies . Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0235-1_7

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