A.G. GANESHKUMAR, G. RANGANATH, CHANNANKAIAH AND Y. LIBIN
Abstract
E-waste has become an immediate and long term concern as its unregulated accumulation and recycling can lead to major environmental problems endangering human health. Reusing and recycling are the effective ways of dealing with E-wastes. While recycling appears to be a safe method to utilize or dispose E-wastes, it can be a misleading characterization of disparate practices including dismantling, shredding, burning, exporting, etc. which are mostly unregulated and often create additional hazards itself. Polycarbonate in landfills is definitely an environmental nightmare. These wastes can be reduced by properly recycling and converting them into some useful products. This work deals with the proper reuse of compact disc waste polycarbonate. The fabrication of polymer composite exhaust fan blade made up of E-glass fiber reinforced with recycled polycarbonate and epoxy by hand lay-up method to be carried out. The benefits of changing to the new blade material particularly include better quality, greater resistance to corrosion, weight reduction and cost. The mechanical properties to be characterized by tensile strength, flexural strength, impact strength, wear rate tests and the surface properties by Scanning Electron Microscope analysis.